VIEW

A strong point of view.

Images from here, here, here, and here. Something more of interest here.

SPRING

These were on my desktop. I don't remember where they came from.

STILLS

Titles from director Eric Rohmer. Clear and complex.

MORE

Stella McCartney (see also: Differences) is commercial but manages to be wearable and just interesting enough. The monogram pattern is pretty out there, I'd love to tuck the blouse into a black or tweed skirt. I probably wouldn't wear the skirt or blouse on the far right but would love to see the look on someone else.

POST TITLE

Recently I happened on this Jackson Pollack exhibition catalogue at the Smithsonian Archive. Interesting how the cover looks like a title page. Mixed with the circus/kabel type treatment, altogether it's pretty great. The functional aesthetic of the title page is underestimated, I think.

ON POINT

Nice everything from Céline.

YYY

YYY Magazine's second issue releases this weekend, October 22, at Engine Works / 190 Capp St, San Francisco. 8pm.

LANGUAGE

Baron & Baron, it never gets old.

⌘I

Inverted values: Le Labo for Anthropologie Concrete Perfume packaging. I wonder if the concept of antique "measuring weights" was decided on before or after this was actually designed. Emphasizing the weight instead of the logo already speaks to an apothecary aesthetic -- was that alone not conceptual enough? Brings up interesting questions of concept and execution, I think. Also, probably wouldn't work without Grasse -- New York, even if they are an anti-brand. Altogether pretty packaging reminds me of other fave perfume solid -- In Fiore.

1961

From a 1961 issue of Holiday picked up recently at the Magazine.

YES

From the Shoreditch Department of Advertising Correction. I really despise most advertising, so naturally I think this is great. Found here, via here.

FLAT & NOT FLAT

I've always liked this cover by Alvin Lustig. Its flat patchwork is offset by the incorporated type. Also I think it's impossible not to like vintage handwriting. Interesting how handwriting trends change, no? 

PHONE PICS

Sometimes I don't have my camera with me so take photos on my phone. I never bothered to get them onto my computer until now. I like the film still effect. Bottom from F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, hardbound Penguin edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, spotted at a party recently ...

EFFICIENCY

SMART

Images from 50yearstorm, a blog full of nice typography and tasteful babes. Not sure, I think dude made the illustrations. They rule. Typefaces from Andrew Woodhead, Paris-based typographer/designer, and BALTIC CENTRE for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK.

GRAY AREAS

Recently on the BBC a show called Wild Swimming featured a poem from Alice Oswald's book, Dart, published by Faber & Faber in 2002. I love how these understated covers combine opposing values simultaneously.

MARITIME

Turn-of-the-Century Maritime logos, found on a recent trip to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.