Ace Jet 170

Smoking Aicher

Just in case you missed it earlier: This is so good! Otl Aicher and his team working (and smoking) on the graphics for the 1972 Munich Olympics graphics. Brilliant!

Via @insect54 and @trebleseven

Sheet Head #6

Maps courtesy of the marvellous Johnny Cullen.

Sheet Head #5

Maps courtesy of the marvellous Johnny Cullen.

It's a cloud. And it's in your living room.

Yep, a "weather station with an indoor cloud function". Of course. Using data from Sweden's Met Office it brings the outdoors, inside. From those clever people that brought us the iPad powering rocking chair.

It's all here.

Sheet Head #4

Cool modernist typography; fresh, clean colours; this sheet reminds me of Vignelli.

Maps courtesy of the marvellous Johnny Cullen.

Sheet Head #3

This is a lovely sheet. Two colours. Quite roughly drafted with that red haphazardly overprinted; it looks like someone's just drawn over the black linework.

Maps courtesy of the marvellous Johnny Cullen.

Sheet Head #2

Conoco sheets are a bit cranky, the font is a bit dodgy and the blue plate feels a little heavily printed. But what's most disconcerting, perhaps quite peculiar to the US (I don't know), is how straight and gridly the road systems are.

They're lovely…and they don't cost much.

Those ace people over at Herb Lester are now selling luggage tags. Printed onto what looks like Tyvek®, they're lightweight but robust. They're also lovely…and don't cost much.

The perfect accompaniment to…er…something else, this Christmas.

Sheet Head #1

Johnny (Euston, do you copy) Cullen knows I like a good map. Disparities in colour scheme, typography, level of detail, branding and other trappings are fascinating. There seems to be no end of variation. Johnny very generously sent me a box full of maps from the US he found in a charity shop. There's loads of them; what you see here is but a small sample.

It was such a generous thing to do and there are so many different designs that I thought they deserved their own series. Hence that…ehum…"special" heading.

The Penrose Annual 1961, Volume 55

Printing, patterns, building and more printing.