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dutch posters #2


following on from yesterdays’ poster post: hereby another selection of the archive dutch posters i came across in the ‘tin’ archives last week… firstly at the top a fairly recent design from ‘herman van bostelen’ whose work i admire very much, shown here below an anarchic collage poster from ‘frits hartingsveldt’


here above a rather odd poster from 1976 featuring swastikas and bare asses and a ‘punk attitude’ before it’s time , for author ‘jan cremer’ promoting a record release


see also this related post

m / 24-07-2012 07:48 - tags: , , ,  

visual representations of information, data or knowledge

IdN magazine have recently released a special on information graphics, will we ever tire of bar charts with funky colours and wave patterns or cool icons explaining how everything works? or doesn’t work, probably not…

those on a limited budget can have a decent peek right here

m / 24-07-2012 07:44 - tags: , , ,  

dutch posters #1

last week i paid a visit to the archives of the ‘tin’ (theater institute) to have a look through their enormous poster archive and luckily i came across a lot of real gems


i will post several of them (in series) this week, starting with a series from ‘de appel’ theater made mostly by ‘jan bons’



m / 23-07-2012 09:38 - tags: , , ,  

the lawless issue

m / 23-07-2012 09:23 - tags: , ,  

living for posters

last friday i went for a random walk through town and came across a small vintage poster gallery that i had never heard of before, one of the people whom i spoke to turned out to be none other than celebrated poster designer gielijn escher who very kindly signed a copy of his book for me

gielijn (who is indeed related to the other ‘escher’) began his career at an early age and having even worked himself as a bill poster he has amassed an enormous collection including many pre-war german artists such as ‘lucian bernhard’ ‘hans rudi erdt’ and ‘ludwig hohlwein’, i actually have an appointment with him next week to acquire some (more recent) dutch posters from his vast collection, great news :)

m / 22-07-2012 14:18 - tags: , ,