Paul Rand interview

Our office got hit with some minor flooding, so while I work on cleaning and sorting things out, enjoy this 3-part interview with legendary graphic designer Paul Rand.

Philately Fridays: China, 1983

1983 was declared to be World Communications Year. For computer nerds, this probably meant all sorts of exciting stuff. For graphic design nerds, this meant all sorts of very nicely-designed commemorative postage stamps to collect. Here's one from China with a great geometric heart pattern.



Related: Austrian World Communications Year stamp from 1983

Lance Wyman at the zoo

Fantastic animal icons designed by the great Lance Wyman for the National Zoo in Washington D.C.


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Dan Reisinger

Here's a whole bunch of design work from Yugoslavian-born and Israel-bred graphic artist Dan Reisinger. His ability to stylishly combine simple shapes and bright colors into wild geometric patterns with a seamless mix of Hebrew and English type makes him one of my favorite designers.


Logo for El Al Airlines, 1971.


Logo for the 14th Maccabiah Games, 1993.

Various posters from the late '60s through early '80s:

Flic Story

Cool illustrated book jacket for a 1977 Spanish edition of the French detective book Flic Story. Designed by Javier Noguera. I'd love to see a full color version if anyone out there has an image of it.

Seattle. You're Going to Like it a Lot.

Here are the highlights from a cool Flickr set of Seattle's "Cabinet of Curiosities." Thanks to Pileup reader Oscar Bartos for passing the link along!









Related: Emerald City, September 3 2008.

Philately Fridays: USA, 1974

Here's one designed by beloved artist Peter Max for the 1974 World's Fair, held in Spokane WA.

Beards by Tom Carnase

It's hard for me to make a claim like this, but this book cover for a pressing of Reginald Reynolds' 1949 book "Beards," might be my favorite type treatment ever. It's gorgeously drawn by Herb Lubalin's colleage Tom Carnase, it's funny, it's concise, it's perfect.

Suntory Time

Great promotional poster for Japan's Suntory brewing company from 1973. Really love the theme and variation with the rainbow circle shapes and this is making me long for sunny weather right about now.


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Art director: Masao Sugimara.
Designer: Kenichi Matsunaga

Philately Fridays: USA, 1976

Collecting stamps about collecting stamps.



Related: Lance Wyman's logo for Junior Philatelists: