Vintage Wallet Insert: Identification Card (Approved)
Image by C. K. Hartman
Good to know that this is an “Approved” identification card. Or is it the bearer of the card who has been approved? And "card" is a stretch. These inserts are printed on some of the flimsiest paper I've ever encountered, several notches below newsprint.
In the vital stats section: Blood type. Good thinking, I guess.
Notice how the “Zip” is in a slightly different typeface? Looks like Helvetica regular as opposed to the condensed sans-serif used for the address blanks. (Typographers: In the condensed font, I notice that the a, y, and r have distinctively curved elements. Is this maybe the special font that Bell developed for phone books, designed to be legible at extremely small sizes? ) The addition of the "Zip" later on indicates that the original design of the insert dates from the pre-zip-code era, that is, before the early 1960s, but that the wallet itself is newer than that.
Basic standards of tomfoolery would of course require one to write in “Federal Bureau of Investigation” in the “Employed by” blank.
Maybe not the best idea nowadays to just give out your SSN to the random stranger who finds your wallet.
American Graphic Design
Image by Alki1
A 1988 logo design by Paul Rand for the retail clothing store chain. The chairman of the company turned it down, and it was never used.
Clothing Swap invite
Image by askdzign
i used one sweatshirt to compose the letters on a concrete floor and took photos then collaged and "made pretty" in photoshop ... this was sent as an email blast (at a larger size) ... used to have my address after "ashley's house" but for obvious reasons, I took that out.
American Graphic Design
Image by Alki1
Lecture poster for the Cranbrook Academy of Art and AIGA Detroit poster designed by Stefan Sagmiester 1999. From Graphic Design for the 21st Century by Charlotte & Peter Fiell.
I think of those 47 U.S. paper mills and their use of chlorine dioxide to bleach paper. And I do try to understand Sagmiester's work.....but I am a child of the Great Depression so perhaps I never will. (Mother, why doesn't the king have any clothes on?)
twig ad for the stranger 11/2007
Image by mahalie
This is the option Angela chose for her first ad in the Stranger. TWIG is a children's clothing boutique that is officially opening Friday November 23rd on 83rd and Greenwood.
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