October 20, 2011
Beautiful package design for Lark Cigarettes by George Tscherny, circa 1968. (via Container List)
July 19, 2011
Beatle boots, taken from this set of previously unseen Beatle photos. (via Subtraction)
September 16, 2010
Graphic Design 4, 1961, designed by Ryuichi Yamashiro
From 1959-1986, this Japanese quarterly promoted Japanese and Western designers, placing emphasis on work with a more constructed approach. This issue’s cover designer Ryuichi Yamashiro is a prominent figure in Japanese Graphic Design, having founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960 with Yusaku Kamekura and Hiromu Hara.
(via Display)
September 8, 2010
Jim Henson, Time Piece, 1965
Didn’t think I could possibly like this guy more. And I like him more now.
(via sarahspy)
(Source: youtube.com)
August 25, 2010
Color is for anything you want and butterflies too
Tony Palladino, 1967
Good morning.
(via Container List)
November 13, 2009
Design Council Slide Collection
Prototype rocking toy made from cardboard, designed by John Millns of Leeds College of Art, 1968.
Design Council Slide Collection
Prototype sit-on rocking toy designed by Martin Lunn of Leeds College of Art, 1968.
September 10, 2009
Flapsole Sneakers (via HensonCompany)
Flapsole Sneakers is an ad parody made by Jim Henson in the 1960s to play around with different commercial techniques.
This is great, of course.
August 22, 2009
From the guy who brought you Space Invaders, a series of pixelated album sleeves.
May 30, 2009
May 14, 2009
Barney Bubbles (via Creative Review)
April 29, 2009
The Session - Experimental Jetset
Regarding the LSD theme: it’s interesting that we actually don’t use drugs at all (apart from very modest amounts of nicotine and alcohol). In fact, Danny, being completely straight edge, doesn’t even smoke or drink, and never has. But despite being drugs-free, all three of us are quite obsessed with the aesthetic language of Sixties psychedelia. In a lot of our work we try to situate the psychedelic experience in a modernist context, an attempt that some might see as paradoxical, but we think it is far from that. It all boils down to this Marxist notion of ‘the liberation of senses’ (or, in Marx’ exact words, “the complete emancipation of all human senses and qualities”). It is there where psychedelia and modernism meet.
Interesting. (Continuing on with our Beatles theme.)
November 25, 2008
Neil Young, age 22, live in Ann Arbor. Full performance stream at NPR. →
“You really blew our minds,” an astonished emcee said while introducing the performance. “We only expected a lot less people than showed up. I think you are a lot wiser than we were.”
