I picked up the first in the series of three monstrous books on industrial design masterpieces released by Phaidon today and I am currently swimming in a pool of over a thousand pages of design greatness. Covered is everything from motorcycles, to tools, to Toblerone bars.. Each volume covers a different period of time and design so needless to say I will eventually grow hungry to own the others in the set.
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I’ve been in love with these cars the first time I ever set eyes on one at a quirky Volkswagen show. The German Postal Services commissioned Volkswagen to build them a truck for their mail delivery in the early sixties. Today very little of the original trucks exist in a drivable state. The Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen, better known as the Fridolin, predates the ultra boxy cars of today’s Scion and Honda models.
Well just three of them, there’s definitely more but I have always gravitated towards these for projects.
Archer by the infamous Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry. Available in 40 different weights, most notable for it’s use in the corkgrips banner at the top of the page you’re reading from.. Ok that might be a bit of a lie, because it was actually designed for print in Martha Stweart Living magazine.
Futura is a typeface I can never seem to get enough of, designed by a sharp German named Paul Renner who is also well known for his book The Art of Typography. Futura can be seen everyone as it is loved by many: Ikea, Volkswagen, Barbara Kruger, Wes Anderson films, Vampire Weekend, the list goes on forever. This past fall there was some drama going on because Ikea had made the switch over to Verdana (!?) and upset a lot of people… who live Futura.
Interstate takes after the all too familiar letters of highway signs and was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones of the (surprise!) Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry. Below is only a small sampling of the weights it comes in but I like to use the heavier weights.
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All images by John Prolly of Prolly is not Probably from his exquisite weekly Merckx Mondays. These are just a sampling of my favorites vintage beauties he has shared with the world..
..until the new Vampire Weekend officially releases. I’ve gotten a preview of some of the new tracks via an incomplete leak but I anticipate hearing the whole thing. I’ve always been a fan of their album covers and their standardized layout of an image with text in Futura.
a stenciled version of futura
cork grips 