Saturday 4th February 2012
A classic poster from 1963 by design legend Massimo Vignelli. The Italian once has said, “If you can design one thing, you can design everything,” and this is reflected in his broad range of work ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage… Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.
This classic is a book cover for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, designed by one of our favourites Wim Crouwel in 1966. It doesn’t get much better than this.
ELSKEN, ED VAN DER - Sweet Life.1966. Cloth-covered boards (hardcover), illustrated dustjacket (with protective mylar), 29 x 29 cms., (32) pp. text in Dutch + 179 fine black-and-white plates in photogravure.
Rounding off March nicely our work for Dorsch Gallery was featured on the Creative Review blog. There is a nice description of the work by CR Senior Writer Gavin Lucas, and a quote from our Creative Director. Creative Review magazine was launched in London in 1980 and is the leading visual communication journal. It now has subscribers in over 80 countries and readers online in over 120.
Link: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/dorsch-gallery-identity
We are currently researching for a new project we are working on that requires an early 20th C look. Along with the typefaces we know from the period we found and thought we would share these. Time to step back from the Mac for a while and get the pencils out.
Simple, strong and bold design for these manual covers for Nikon circa late 70s early 80s represents a product that will last (they are still in use today) as well as giving focus and unity across all their range. Great stuff.
For more than 50 years, Phil Stern has captured images that we now recognize as iconic and familiar. The late Norman Granz of Verve Records commissioned Phil to photograph an endless stream of Jazz greats. These sleeves show Stern’s remarkable photographs paired with sophisticated typography, or simply the Verve logo. The image of Ella and Louis is particularly arresting and still manages to look contemporary.
We found these old Vivitar manuals while doing some window shopping on eBay. They date from the 1970s and are a great example of strong, simple graphic design with consistent branding.