70s editorial design

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Marvin in alternating line colors on the book jacket for a hardcover book club edition by Random House, New York, 1973. Stories by Mary Barrett, Fredric Brown, Robert Colby, Zena Collier, Ron Goulart, Roald Dahl, Harold R. Daniels, Miriam Allen deFord, Joe Gores, James Cross, R

Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an 8-minute tour from the Portobello Road … Continue reading "A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967"

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1970 Samsonite luggage ad

Cover from my collection of vintage Gebrauchgraphik/Novum design magazines

Before there was Typekit, before there was Fonts.com, DaFont or Google Fonts, designers had to share their typefaces the old-fashioned way—via print advertisements. In Print magazine’s 75 years of publishing, we’ve seen some great adverts, some funny, some dry and some, well, strange. We dug deep into the archives to find our favorite type-vertisements. Some you might recognize, others, not so much. The 1950s 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 The 1960s 1960 1960 1960 19

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