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La Pobla de Lillet, last week.
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Wasserette
Launderette in english…
We have fans! Thank you Axel for this beauty. Coenraetsstraat, Brussels St. Gilles.
Humble housenumbers
make a happy postman —
In the streets of Salamanca, these housenumbers — high above the entrance doors — politely bend towards the postman to compensate for perspective distortion.
Bruna SF
Zwarte Beertjes abstract —
Dick Bruna designed over 2000 covers for the Zwarte Beertjes series, pocket books that brought famous international detective series to a dutch public. Well known are the covers he did for the Saint and James Bond series or Maigret and other Simenon books. The color schemes and simple iconography Bruna used set a style that made the Beertjes famous. Slightly different and more abstract are these covers for some Science Fiction titles. Continue reading
Blink!
Deco Empress —
Seen today in Mechelen. Glass in lead art deco lettering.
Design is good for you!
vitamin chart —
This beautiful chart is French. The Guide de la Santé par les Vitamines des Aliments by monsieur A. Orain, the book which is praised as a guide for correct use on the backside, had a second edition in 1946 (thank you Google). This is the only indication I have about the age of this poster.
Blink!
3DE —
Seen today in Hoogstraat/Rue Haute, Brussels
Blink!
Brio Soap Boxes —
Seen today in Blaesstraat/rue Blaes, Brussels
Fontstructing in the seventies
Rob Ligtelijn —
I found this book in a charity shop some time ago. The choice of colour, the bold, clear approach and the letterforms make it an iconographic example of seventies design. The lettering could have been designed in FontStruct, but the book is definitely too old for that. It looks like some sixties modular type I have seen before, maybe influenced by bauhaus typography. Searching on the web and in my specimen books didn’t bring up a match, so I decided to ask the designer of the book cover. If I was able to trace him…
