— Type for you.

Perhaps nothing (besides Volkswagen and Coke) illustrates the bold new advertising style of the late ’60s and early ’70s better than menswear brand H.I.S. Strong type. Great copy. Nick Nolte (who stars in the ad below).

The company was founded in New York in 1923 as “Honesdale Manufacturing Co.” by Henry I. Siegel from Lublin, Poland. In 1956, as an homage to his father, Jesse Siegel established the H.I.S brand, whose logo is composed of Henry I. Siegel’s initials set in Franklin Gothic, one of the most popular typefaces of the era.

Most images found via Voices of East Anglia and Found in Mom’s Basement.

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New official La Boca film poster for the Carol Reed movie The Third Man (1949). Designed for the Dark City Gallery and StudioCanal, there will be two limited edition screenprints available: Metallic Silver & Black (edition of 75), and Blue & Pink (edition of 150). All signed & numbered, and hand-printed in the UK. — debutart.tumblr.com

The primary typeface for this poster is Fanfare (Louis Oppenheim, 1927). Apparently, the designers of La Boca were unhappy with some of its capital letters, so they replaced them with shapes that are derived from the lowercase – see C, M, V and W. The script is Filmotype LaSalle, designed in 1952 by Ray Baker. Looking at a word like ‘Alida’ reveals that Filmotype’s official digitization (Patrick Griffin, Rebecca Alaccari, 2008) – the version that is used here – is superior to competing releases.

Thanks to @monokromfonts for the pointer.

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Ryan Dombal’s Daft Punk cover story for Pitchfork can be read and viewed in a special “dynamic” version. Make sure to visit the page, since the screenshots shown here can’t do justice to the browsing experience which comprises a responsive layout with animated sequences, various scrolling effects and flipping characters that are reminiscient of flap displays.

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“The challenge was to not only have each of the six books book stand on its own visually and conceptually, but also have them, when pieced together, form a single compelling and illustrative image. Arranged together, the covers create a powerful view of a human head while individual covers deftly convey in graphic shorthand the neurological idiosyncrasies Sacks describes in each book.” — Cardon Webb

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Redesign Arabia is “an initiative to bring design, in the widest sense, into the contemporary mainstream life of the Arab region.” The site uses one of the few typeface families that supports both Latin and Arabic writing systems, FF Amman, designed by Yanone for the capital of Jordan.

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A history of the Icelandic character ð (eth) published by Crymogea. Toshi Omagari created this custom eth, which the book’s designer Gunnar Vilhjálmsson calls “the John Travolta eth”. The book also features what may be the first ‘fð’ ligature, designed by Fred Smeijers.

The typeface is Metro Nova, a revival by Omagari of Metro’s original forms, soon to be released by Monotype.

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The music video for  Dillon Francis’ “Messages” is using Apple Color Emoji almost exclusively. A milestone in visual communication. 

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Re:publica is an annual conference that deals with web-related topics like blogging, social media, digital society and web politics. On the occasion of re:publica 13 which opened it doors in Berlin today, Wortfeld has published a series of historic conference posters, claiming that they were discovered “in the attic of the state archives in Berlin-Dahlem”. The posters purportedly prove that the roots of re:publica go back not only to 2007, but actually a full hundred years, when “engineers, artists, painters and musicians first met in a Berlin machine factory in 1913, under the wary eyes of the Prussian secret police”.

Although there are a couple of details that challenge their authenticity, the posters do a remarkable job at emulating the various historic styles of graphic design. It’s obvious that the designer(s) had lots of fun with these.
The images were published under a CC-by license.

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Erste Liga created the visual identity for Meyerinck, a bistro/café in Berlin, by combining a stylized portrait of the namesake with Elena Albertoni’s lovely retro script Nouvelle Vague.

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