Letterform Archiveさんのイラストまとめ

Clara Istlerová, poster for the film Dny všední a dny sváteční, Czechoslovakia, 1976.

Happy birthday Ladislav Sutnar (1897–1976)! Born in present-day Czech Republic, the pioneer of information design worked as an art director for Sweet's Catalog Service for almost 20 years and authored many books about visual design principles. #lfabirthday https://t.co/TWWXtzbIyz

Jean Midolle, Alphabet Diabolique, Emile Simon fils press, France, 1835. Read more about Midolle from guest author Dan Reynolds @typeoff on our blog: https://t.co/1LY7ivHs3Y

Russell Maret, Æthelwold Etc: Twenty-Six Letters Inspired by Other Letters and Non-Letters and Little Bits of Poetry, facsimile edition published by Editions Schlechter, New York, 2013 (orig. 2009).

Ad for Heinz tomato juice in Fortune magazine Vol. 9, No. 6, New York, June 1934.

(Image 1) Das Bauhaus: 1919–1933 Weimar Dessau Berlin by Hans M. Wingler, Verlag Gebr. Rasch and Co., Bramsche, 1962.
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​(Images 2 and 3) Johannes Itten, Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus, translated by John Maass, Reinhold Publishing Corp, New York, 1964.

Happy birthday to Victor Moscoso, one of the “Big Five” who produced rock posters, ads, and underground comix in the psychedelic era! #LfABirthday
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​​Images: Victor Moscoso, handbills for performances at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967.

Happy birthday Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)! The Czech painter and graphic artist — whose style came to define the French Art Nouveau movement — was born 161 years ago today. #LfABirthday
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​Image: Alphonse Mucha, Le Pater, Paris, 1899. See it in the OA: https://t.co/BfWnVGCL0r

Happy birthday, Giovanni Pintori (1912–1999)! #LfABirthday On our blog: read about how the Italian graphic designer revisualized the typewriter in the 1950s. (​📷: Giovanni Pintori, pamphlets advertising a variety of Olivetti typewriter models, 1964–6.) https://t.co/qiZ8obNeK7

The Vedic Square, Diagram: the Instrument of Thought by Keith Albarn & Jenny Miall Smith, Thames & Hudson, London, 1977. The Vedic Square is a multiplication square. When a multiplication (9x9) results in two or more digits (81), it is ’reduced‘ by adding them together (8+1=9).