VINTAGE TYPE Category
Archive, archive and more archive! Ben Reed’s Sweetheart video
Posted on July 16, 2010 1 Comment
Just found this mega-graphic-designy music video by Ben Reed for The Wave Picture’s track Sweetheart. It’s a pure celebration of the visual & typographic ephemera of the archival printed page. Archive, archive and more archive. Type specimens, kids books, educational periodicals, random crazy stuff…. While I’ve explored this aesthetic a lot over the years, most […]
La Antenna (typographic feature film)
Posted on June 13, 2010 1 Comment
I recently stumbled across an amazing filmic find: La Antenna, a “silent-film” made in 2007 by Argentinian Cinematographer/director Esteban Sapir. Shot in a chalky black & white, with lavish, though lo-fi production design, it is probably the most typographic film I’ve even seen. The titles/subtitles, are as much dramatic props as they are communication. The […]
Lost (and found) posters in the London Underground
Posted on June 10, 2010 9 Comments
What could be cooler than finding 50-year-old posters, that were forgotten in a sealed off corridor in Notting Hill Gate tube station in London? Uh, well probably a lot of things, but this is pretty damned cool, don’t you think! Here’s the statement from Transport for London’s Mike Ashworth who photographed them: Work at (Notting […]
The Vegas Neon Sign Museum Bone Yard
Posted on March 6, 2010 5 Comments
I recently found out about the amazing old sign Bone Yard at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas. What can I say other than LOOK at all those wicked cool old signs!! I love bulb-signs!!! Gotta get myself over there soon and see for myself. Thanks to Lois Lane74 (via Flickr) for the photographs. An […]
iVictrola
Posted on December 8, 2009 5 Comments
This is one of those “damn, I wish I’d thought of that” ideas. In fact, I kinda did think of this once (really!), but not in such a super cool, old world meets new world kind of way. I found this amazing thing on the Design Within Reach website, and it got my heart racing. […]
Vintage Luggage Tags
Posted on November 30, 2009 25 Comments
I recently got back from 8 weeks away in the US directing my first documentary film, called Alfred and Jakobine, check it out. Anyway, we covered over 4000 miles of US roads (it’s a roadtrip documentary) but also by air. Now that I’ve flown home to London, it seemed like an ideal time to do […]
Kanye West – Paranoid
Posted on June 19, 2009 1 Comment
A nice homage to vintage, thriller title sequences (or actually vintage, thriller trailers) is to be found in the video for Kanye West’s new track Paranoid featuring Rihanna. The video directed by Nabil Elderkin owes a lot to a LOT of references, but I guess that’s what homages are all about. Lets count them, shall […]
Pulp Fiction, the typography of thrills and chills
Posted on June 11, 2009 1 Comment
Though well before my time, I absolutely love the graphic tradition of pulp fiction novels. Apparently, they drew their nick-name from the cheap paper they were printed on, always intended to be low-cost, high-thrill, mass entertainment. Spanning the 20’s to the 50’s in their pure, original form, their cover illustrations were as sensational as the […]
The design of Tintin
Posted on June 2, 2009 3 Comments
As a kid, my dad would bring me back a new Tintin album each time he went away on a business trip. I loved Tintin then, and I still do today, and now, as a professional designer, I have an even greater respect for the creator, Hergé (Georges Remi). Not only were the Tintin stories […]
Old is New: New is Old
Posted on May 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
It may be quite clear from a cursory review of my posts, that I am rather drawn to historical design and typography. While I am undeniably a creature of modern times, I just love old stuff. Old cars, old books, old art movements, and old type. Well, I am certainly not alone, and while a […]
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