The Swiss Tourist Office gave away these attractive postcards in their offices around the world. The message side says they are postcard versions of posters. I've had them for some time so they might date back to the seventies or earlier.
A very Swiss approach to promotion with their excellent photos and straighforward typography. Who would want to throw them away!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Folio 1-2-3 / Sanders Printing Corporation
Sanders was a New York based printer founded in 1895 and
these booklets were issued in the in the sixties to the early seventies (none
were dated).
They were 7.75 by 9 inches
and obviously printed by the company, the first nine had sixteen pages and from
ten onwards it varied between twenty and forty pages.
Each featured a designer or design company and of
the few I have the selection is very impressive.
Folio 7, designed by Gaynor & Ducas, was
an Annual Report for David’s Lemonade Stand which spun off a very clever David’s
Lemonade Stand Corporate Identity Manual for Folio 15, Folio 10 was devoted to
Mo Lebowitz and his famous (least among designers) The Antique Press, Folio 11 had
a handsome design by Herb Lubalin on how to become a successful Art
Director.
Unfortunately I’ve only got
eleven of these lovely printer promotions and the first three are shown
below. Folio 1 featured Chermayeff &
Geismar design group; Folio 2 Louis Silverstein at the New York Times; Folio 3 Papert,
Koenig, Lois ad agency. Tom Geismar recently told me the first issue was designed in 1960 or '61.Issues 4, 5, 7 and 15 are in the September Archive.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Great Ideas ads / part four / Container Corporation of America
Great Ideas ads in Past Print are in October 2011, March 2012,
July 2012, March 2013, July 2013, February 2024, May 2024
The
first twenty-five ads are in the October
2011 archive,
next twenty-five in March 2012
and July 2012
then March 2013 and July 2013