PUBLIC MARKS with tags vintage & typography

swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.

Sheaff : ephemera A place for show-and-tell, wondering aloud, and wandering the trails of curiosity . . . Comments, corrrections, additional information, fresh insights, other interpretations, more images, or related observations will be welcomed!

The Playbills site The Leeds Playbills site is part of the Leodis digitisation project funded by the New Opportunities Fund. What is available? This site is making available all the playbills in the Local Studies Library collection from a wide range of Leeds Theatres such as The City Varieties, The Grand, The Princess and the Theatre Royal. The site provides a unique insight into theatre life in Leeds between 1781 and the 1990's. The site also contains some circus bills, such as those from Pablo Fanque's Circus.

Typographical details of Michael Twyman's ephemera collection. - French posters 19/20th Century - Telephone Directory - Time History charts - Pop Up Books - Non-Latin books - Forms

In honor of Sputnik 1, 50 years later (on Oct. 4th), I present to you all a nice little gem of a book I got off of ebay about a year ago: Space Alphabet (1964) by Irene Zacks. Pictures by Peter P. Plasencia. It's the entire book. I normally don't do this, but it's just too good not to share it all.

Témoignages sur le monde de l'édition du XVe au XIXe siècle, textes et images / Texts and pictures from the 15th to the 19th century

There is an awesome museum in Vegas that collects all the old neon signs that have been decommissioned. Here's a link to their site.

Here are some audio clips and title sequence images from Bewitched. Copying, duplication or redistribution of any of these audio files and images without my prior written consent is prohibited. The theme song, written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller, came in four flavors during the opening credits: One version for season 1, another for season 2 (not included below), and two more for seasons 3-5 and 6-8. The opening cartoon by Hanna-Barbera also had three versions. Seasons 1-2 (photographed in black-and-white), 3-5 and 6-8 (with Dick Sargent).

urban wasteland, signage, urban graphics

Rare and Unique Typefaces for Artists / copying old style letters & signs.

Rare and Unique Typefaces for Artists / copying old style letters & signs.

wild west press, minuteman printshop, civil war press, gutenberg press... historical typefaces