i’m busy working on some vintage look ‘glass negative’ typography for a poster, the trick (or challenge) for me, is to make it all using only indesign not photoshop, which is working out nicely so far… more news soon
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the british mentality
i really like these stamps from lincoln graduate (my old art school) tom pollard, these are much more interesting conceptually than the endless series of retro design ‘nostalgia’ stuff the british post office keeps on producing
old stuff
some nice german wall-lettering, which i’m guessing is from the prussian-era or is it jugendstil?… who knows
needless to say i am attached to her work
…out of the 30-40,000 negatives I have in the collection, about 10-15,000 negatives were still in rolls, undeveloped from the 1960’s-1970’s. I have been successfully developing these rolls. I still have about 600 rolls yet to develop. I must say, it’s very exciting for me. Most of her negatives that were developed in sleeves have the date and location penciled in French (she had poor penmanship)…
this a great story i picked up from ‘design observer’: an american fella ‘john maloof’ who acquired a set of negatives in an auction that turned out to be the complete oeuvre of an unknown chicago street photographer vivian maier, there are some really beautiful images in there and a stunning visual history of a city too… he tried to find her when it became obvious what he had bought but she sadly passed away just before he got the chance to meet her…
SP
the graffiti artist formerly known as ‘spanky’ or ‘sp’ is, these days making somewhat more ‘legit’ pieces, like these murals for the ‘coney island’ fun fairs
you can see more of his work here
