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The 45th Annual of Advertising & Editorial Art & Design of the Arts Directors Club of New York is more a sentence than a title. But with the help of Franklin Gothic it looks good on the cover. See more of the content of The 45th Annual of Advertising & Editorial Art & Design of the Arts Directors Club of New York on my flickr account.
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Cover Couple
GEORGE Gerster is a fly guy. He is one of the pioneers of aerial photography and stuck his camera out of airplanes on all continents. You probably know his work. Airline company Swissair used Gerster’s aerial pictures in several ad campaigns. But also with both…
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Full Circle
THIS is the last issue of Museumjournaals of the year 1971. The wheel is come full circle. There are five more cover designers Jurriaan Schrofer made that year, all are variations of the two elements that make the circle. See all of them here. …
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PTT Yearbook
IT’S always nice to see something old look fresh. Like this yearbook from 1989 from the Dutch telecom and postal service PTT. In those days PTT took great pride in corporate design. They even had an in-house design department called Dienst Esthetische Vormgeving (later called…
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National Geographic Headlines
NATIONAL Geographic is the perfect magazine for waiting rooms. It’s a safe mix of popular science, history and travel stories larded with info graphics, reconstructions of old Maya cities and calendar photography. But that is not the reason for this post. In the early eighties the…
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Red Head
RED and white mastheads on the top of a cover must sell magazines. It looks almost like a formula. White sans serif typeface + red box = pleasing masthead. Life and Picture Post used it since the late thirties. After World War II more magazines,…
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Der Butt
NICE title, Günter Grass! Oh wait, Butt means turbot in German. Anyway, the cover is ok. Found it this morning at my local bookshop and thought it would be nice to share with you. Design by Jan Buchholz and Reni Hinsch and published by Fischer Taschenbucher…
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Schematic Diagram
FOUND on the street: a envelop that was taped under a sixties stereo receiver from Sansui. It was empty but once it hold the schematic diagram of the set. By the way, the receiver was damaged beyond repair.
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Book / Buch
THIS old German book has seen better days. It’s been around since 1850 and I recently picked it up from a bookstand. The leather spine is missing and so you see that the printer used misprints in making the book. The font that is revealed…
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Show One’s Color
THE sixties and seventies were a great time for leftist intellectuals. Dreaming of a better and fairer society, they would retrieve in their studies to write essays that, hopefully, changed the world. These writing could end up in magazines like ‘Wijsgierig perspectief op maatschappij en…
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SM Ring Binder
WIM Crouwel, member of the design studio Total Design, worked many years for the Stedelijk Museum. From 1964 he designed, among other things, the catalogs and posters for the museum in Amsterdam. Total Design came up with the acronym SM. The two letters played a…
