Russell Johnston and Megan Jones have been collecting vintage Travel and Ski posters since 1979. The collection was started by Russell’s father Robert W Johnston, a Royal Air Force navigator after the Second World War…
Tag: Poster
Ed Nacional
Ed manages to find that golden midway: minimalist yet richly detailed, subtle yet bold, monochrome and colourful.
Modern hand lettering of India
Two interesting type-related snippets came across my desk this week, both from India: hand drawn movie posters from Bangalore and digital fonts created from the lettering of street painters in Delhi…
Telegramme Studio
London based collaborative studio Telegramme has a nice eclectic mix of posters, signs and illustration work in their portfolio…
Vintage punk rock flyers get swissted
Hey, remember when Jack Black and Mos Def sweded VHS movies in Be Kind Rewind? Well, Swissted is kind of like that, only with punk gig flyers…
100th post and 2011 sign-off
This is Typedeck’s 100th post since launching in June this year – a great milestone and a good time to sign off for 2011. Thanks for all the support and positive feedback so far!
Lucha Libre letterpress posters from Mexico City
Hans Gremmen of Amsterdam procured this great set of Lucha Libre posters from a letterpress print shop in Mexico City in 2009. Hard to believe that an outdated printing technique can trump the efficiency of digital production in the 21st century. Here’s the proof…
Funny letterpress posters stipulate new rules of work
Division of Labor based in Sausalito, California letterpressed these cool posters serving as a reminder of those little unwritten rules your colleagues may have forgotten about…
Friday find: Boxing posters
Check out these awesome boxing posters from the 1930s and 40s.
Lovely posters letterpressed by Typoretum
Letterpress is essentially the very earliest method of printing text, invented by Gutenberg in the 1400s. Print shops like Typoretum are reviving this old fashioned art…