NYTimes.com Design Director Khoi Vinh’s take on the Tropicana packaging scandal is notable primarily because he’s the only person I’ve seen addressing the usability problems introduced by Arnell’s revisions to the brand:
link » Subtraction: Orange You Sorry About Tropicana?
link » NYTimes.com: Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
Autumn is all about change so this time around we’re doing something a little different. Our generous friends at Betalevel in Chinatown have graciously offered up their space to host a very special film screening. I’m not tellling you what the movie is yet, but rest assured if you’re a designer you’ve heard of it. [...]
Paula Scher has updated her very well known identity for The Public Theater, and Pentegram has a very interesting look at how the identity has evolved over the last 14 years.
link » New Work: The Public Theater
link » The Public Theater
[via Brand New]
This is a little old (at least, in internet terms) so apologies to those that have seen it, but designer Nicholas Feltron produces a recap of his life every year in the form of an annual report, and the 2007 edition is a beaut’. You can also order a print edition, and at a measly [...]
YouTube user bhilmers created this pretty fantastic school project imagining what it may’ve been like if Saul Bass had designed the opening credits for Star Wars.
[via BoingBoing]
Thanks to Colleen and the KERNSPIRACY list for pointing to this Vanity Fair slideshow of three dozen vintage lobby cards from the collection of late screenwriter Leonard Schrader. Interestingly, Schrader kept his collection of over eight thousand pristinely archived lobby cards a secret! Vanity Fair has a short article detailing their discovery, and the collection [...]
I think these Battlestar Galactica propaganda-style posters designed by Quantum Mechanix are a really fantastic example of smart licensing. Whereas most of attempts to do this kind of thing are foiled by brand managers who insist on slapping a huge logo right where it doesn’t belong (hello Napoleon Dynamite’s “Vote for Pedro” tees), these demonstrate what [...]
Here’s yet another awesome Flickr pool. Do they ever end? This one’s called “I Love My Electric Appliance!” and is full of fantastic vintage advertising reference that’s just ripe for “homage.”
Flickr user bigdaddyhame has posted an unbelievable set of vintage travel posters from the 50’s and 60’s:
I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950’s and 1960’s. There are some real gems in here!
I’ve done my best to identify them however quite a number are in [...]
Here is a collection of vintage Penguin Books covers that will make you wet your pants. This set was put together in response to the totally must-have Penguin by Design: A Cover Story by Phil Baines (softcover, hardcover).
I found this via BoingBoing, who also recently linked a long interview with Penguin art director Paul Buckley [...]
