thank god for trains with wirelss… as i write this i’m heading off to burgundy, france for a few days… to help one of my favourite clients with the design of a new historical reference book he has written, my father
the blog will be a bit quiet (maybe) till i get back on tuesday, have a good weekend
when i initially saw some of this packaging it brought about a certain nostalgic feeling, not only because it is clearly old but also because i can vaguely remember some of it myself as a kid…
supermarket chain ‘sainsburys’ developed an untypically british ‘modernistic’ range of ‘own label’ products during the ’60s and ’70s of the last century and it turns out (to my surprise) that they had a dedicated in-house design team, something which to my mind is more often associated with german (braun), dutch (randstad) or swiss brands (geigy) than british ones of that era… the first golden era of ‘helvetica’?
the extensive archive has been lovingly documented in a fabulous little book, called simply ‘own label’ compiled & designed by london-based ‘fuel through their own publishing wing…
this is a rewrite of a dutch article i wrote last week for ‘fontanel’
whilst greece and italy slowly tumble into chaos, the question of just how much solidarity we are prepared to offer our neighbours becomes ever more relevant, a timely moment to launch the latest two (dutch & english) editions of the ‘dingen’ series
see more about this project in ‘me work’ for example here
amusing archive of overused stock images on book jackets, including the woman with a birdcage and without her birdcage…
and a man walking near a fence whether it be in london or berlin or even with a different hat on, the perils of using iconic (but freely available as stock) images…
