Recent Posts Tagged With '1970s'

• Kurokawa Nakagin Capsule Hotel

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 03:12 in japan, hotels, architecture, tokyo, 1970s, found design

  Nakagin Capsule Tower (AKA The BC25 Capsule) designed by Kisho Kurokawa The 60s and 70s were an exciting period for Japanese architecture. In particular, the Metabolist Movement which was founded by a group of futuristic visionaries, including late ...

• Lisez, Jouez et Decouvrez La Scandinavie avec Andersen

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 05:41 in books, france, vintage, 1970s, rare, off our book shelves, kidsbooks

  lisez, jouez et decouvrez La Scandinavie avec Andersen -by Paul de Roujoux, Pamela Labonnelie and Mireille Ballero. Illustrations by Martine Bourre c1975 editions des deux coqs d’or La Scandinavie avec Andersen is a beautiful children’s ...

• Cult + Classic Film Stills From the Hot Dog!

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 05:01 in films, 1970s, 1950s, 1960s, found design, filmtitles

  A Colt is My Passport (1967) - Directed by Takashi Nomura If your into classic + cult films it would be worth your while to check Shannon Maldonado’s I Love Hot Dogs.  Several times a week Shannon curates a selection of stills from a particul...

• Vintage Travel Posters

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 05:44 in travel, africa, Israel, illustration, Canada, france, UK, Germany, vintage, austria, switzerland, posters

  1. Come to Africa - Designed by Gerard van de Voort - c1975 How about virtual tour around the world to start off the week?  I dug up a handful of travel related posters from 1950s -1970s for all the desk jockeys that are itching to get out of town....

• You Need the Plate

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 05:29 in Germany, 1970s, found design

  1972 Munich Olympics Plate : Pictograms designed by Otl Aicher Now all your favorite 70’s stick figures can hide underneath your food. Spotted this gem on Ebay a few days back. ——————– Also worth checking: Otl Aicher on Flickr. ...

• 70s Portuguese Brochure

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 03:55 in Portugal, 1970s, ephemera, graphic-design, off our book shelves

  Beautiful brochure for a chain of hotels in Portugal. From the inside of the brochure: “From the oldest times, “pousada” in Portuguese has meant “resting place”"inn”. Quiet isolated situations by the sea shore, in...

• Vintage Russian Posters - Real 1970s Proper Like

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 04:53 in books, illustration, vintage, posters, 1970s, russia, graphic-design, off our book shelves

  Most articles I see related to Russian poster design tend to focus on the film and propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30s. Works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky as well the Stenberg brothers often come to mind.  This post is dedicated to a...

• Polish Book Covers

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 03:21 in books, vintage, 1970s, poland, 1960s, found design

  Will over at the excellent Journey Round My Skull posted an amazing collection of Polish book covers. There is some seriously wacky stuff going on these book jackets. Whats up with beard face? (via delicious industries) ——————– Also...

• Celestino Piatti + dtv Book: The Unity of the Program

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 02:43 in books, illustration, Germany, vintage, switzerland, 1970s, 1960s, swiss, graphic-design, off our book shelves

  Celestino Piatti + dtv: The Unity of the program - Edited by Jens Muller Two weeks ago we featured the Philips-Twen book from Lars Muller’s new A5 series. Celestino Piatti + dtv is the third title to be released in the series and my favorite of...

• Scandinavian Logos of the 1960s & 70s

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 04:35 in logos, 1970s, 1960s, scandinavian, graphic-design, found design

  K.P. Jorgensen & Son Logo - Part of 1960s & 70s Scandinavian Logos Set This made my day. Vancouver based designer Oliver Tomas uploaded an amazing collection of Scandinavian logos from the 1960s & 70s to his flickr account. Thanks Oliver...

• Vintage German “Vero Construc” Booklets

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 03:56 in Germany, vintage, 1970s, manuals, catalogs, brochures, found design

  Vero Construc toy construction kit -1975 Nuts, bolts, and sprockets! These are the makings of fine toys, as well as these awesome vintage booklets! Created for the East German toy company Vero in 1975, these colorful booklets itemize all of the piece...

• Poland Wieliczka Salt Mine Postcard 1972

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 02:34 in postcards, 1970s, ephemera, poland, off our book shelves

  1972 Poland Wieliczka salt mine postcard designed by K. Rogaczewska. Poland’s Wieliczka Salt Mine, in the suburbs of Kraków, produced table salt continuously for over 700 years. Although operation ceased in 2007, visitors can still tour the m...

• Stefan Kanchev Logo Design, Stamps & TV Graphics

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 04:28 in illustration, bulgaria, logos, 1970s, ephemera, stamps, 1950s, 1960s, graphic-design, found design

  Television graphics Absolutely stunning work from Stefan Kanchev (1915-2001) who was a Bulgarian graphic artist. During his prolific career he designed hundreds of logos, posters, stamps, book covers, labels as well as graphics for TV. Much of his wo...

• Odiléa Toscano: Graphic Design & Illustration

  Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 10:37 in illustration, Brazil, 1970s, 1960s, graphic-design, found design, book-covers

  Brazilian designer, Odiléa Toscano, illustrated delightful magazine covers and book jackets in the 1960s and 1970s. This particular illustration, created as the cover of Visão Magazine in 1962, omits a handful of energy as it uses bright complement...

• Hong Kong Festivals 1975 Stamps

  Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 01:30 in china, hong kong, 1970s, ephemera, stamps, off our book shelves

  1975 Hong Kong festivals - official first day cover and stamp set designed by Tao Ho Tao Ho is a Hong Kong-based architect, designer, teacher, and writer. He studied under Sigfried Giedion and Josep Lluís Sert at Harvard’s Graduate School of ...

• Jazzin’ the Black Forest: The Guide to Saba/MPS Jazz Records

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 05:20 in books, Germany, vintage, 1970s, RECORDS, 1960s, off our book shelves

  Jazzin the Black Forest - The Complete Guide to Saba/MPS Jazz Records -Published by Crippled Library c1999 Jazzin´the Black Forest is the story of the SABA/MPS jazz label. It was established during the early 1960s  and is considered to be Germany´...

• 1970 Belgian Co-op Stamp

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 03:22 in vintage, 1970s, ephemera, stamps, belgium, graphic-design, off our book shelves

  It’s been a while since I’ve posted any stamps, so I figured it’s time. This stamp commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Alliance Cooperative Internationale. It was issued on the 27th of June, 1970 and was designed by J.Malvaux. ...

• Frederic Chaubin: Photographs of Soviet Architecture

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 03:36 in Photography, architecture, contemporary, 1970s, 1980s, found design

  “Druzhba Holiday Center Hall” (Yalta, Ukraine, designed by Igor Vasilevsky 1984)© Frederic Chaubin Fascinating photos from Frederic Chaubin. Many of his images feature strange buildings from the former Soviet Union.  Most of the structures were...

• Vintage Porsche Posters

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 04:16 in vintage, automobiles, posters, 1970s, 1960s, graphic-design, found design

  Europa-Bergmeister 1966 designed by Volz Typography at 200mph. Amazing Porsche posters designed by Erich Strenger and Volz. 1000 km Fuji ‘84 - Designer: Gruppe C Conception und Graphic Design GmbH 1. see above  2. see above 3...

• Jacques Auriac Posters

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 05:03 in books, france, vintage, posters, 1970s, 1980s, off our book shelves

  So, I’m hanging out my with friend and fellow book nerd Sean Flores a while ago and he’s breaks out these incredible posters designed for Bally in the 1980s. My jaw drops! He tells me they were created by French designer Jacques Auriac. W...

• Props Radio - Designer Music vol. 1+2

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 02:15 in music, illustration, 1970s, RECORDS, 1960s, graphic-design

  Designer Music #1 - A Special Music Mix for Grain Edit Readers Once a week I look forward to receiving a hot dj mix from my friend Freddy over at Props Radio. Sometimes it’s funk, other times it’s Soul, Disco, Jazz or Hip Hop. Two weeks ...