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December 17, 2007
In remembrance of things past
Nostalgia is a great thing. How wonderful things were in the Good Old Days. Much simpler then, more straightforward, not so much choice, not so much confusion.
There is, as always, a great interest in images from the past, and the past is now the Sixties and Seventies*. Nothing much can be said about the latter - a ghastly time of Oxford bags, platform shoes, cream shirts huge roundy collars and fat brown ties. But The Sixties were a good thing, now that we can forgive the hippies their long hair.
Today the internet gives us the ability to access, collect and display stuff on an unprecedented level. ffffound ffffor one has pages of images gleaned from other sites. Most ppppopular amongst the ppppictures seem to be typography posters, drawings with slashes and lettering on, sixties record covers, book jackets and photographs with a surreal David Lynch quality.
So here, to add to the ever-growing pot of nostalgia, is my collection of typographical ephemera:
1947
By Ken Garland 1972
1948
1971
Once removed from its original context and displayed like this everything takes on a new significance. We look again at something we perhaps see all the time.
If anyone ffffancies putting any of these on ffffound, that’s ffffine by me.
*though of course “The Sixties” was from 1965 to 1975
Posted by john at December 17, 2007 04:04 PM