Giro d'Italia

Love this poster for Giro d'Italia (the Italian version of Tour de France). Unfortunately I have no information on the designer.

Philately Fridays: Cuba, 1981

Incredible use of color and shape. This stamp commemorates the 20th anniversary of the creation of DAAFAR, Cuba's Air Force.

Here's Lookin' at You

Came across this great alphabet designed for French type foundry Mecanorma by Austrian designers Hans Donner (now a furniture designer and Sylvia Trenker in the late 1970s.

I Heard You Got the Fever for the Flavor

Philately Fridays: New Zealand, 1976

Does anyone do it like Haspel?

Italian logo design

Face-meltingly awesome Italian type and logomark design from the late 1970s and early '80s. No designer IDs available.

Philately Fridays: Venezuela, 1974

Bright stamp design from Venezuela depicting a hypnotizing numeral 9. I feel like the black & red "Venezuela" / "0,50" type was thrown in as an afterthought by a different designer. The blue and orange type and geometric elements gel so well together.

Fontainebleau Hotel logos

Here is a snippet from a 1967 magazine ad for New Orleans' Fontainebleau Hotel, showcasing their different lounges and bars. The hand-drawn script type is too good.

Peter Petrake

Here are the first few pages of a psychedelic Spanish comic entitled Peter Petrake, written and illustrated by Miguel Calatayud in 1970. You can read more about Calatayud here.




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...TO BE CONTINUED!