by Le Fist
New Glamour In Your Life_ I came across these the other day, a series of photographs of Chanel packaging and cosmetic campaigns from the 20s through 50s. With Peter Phillips’ animation of Chanel cosmetics hot off zee press it seems quite timely to go back to the original Design Classics. More so tan (sic) the clothes the graphic identity of Chanel never seems to date. Drool.
Categories: needful things, Uncategorized • Tags: branding, chanel, graphic design, typography
by Le Fist
Trust those Italians to add more than a dash of sex appeal even when trying to sell you manure! I thought these were hilarious. Our green-fingered faceless lady has digits as perfectly manicured as her bed of geraniums. This is the country that gave us Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Nancy dell’Olio and Donatella Versace after all. La Dolce Vita indeed. These would work brilliantly as an ironic make up story. Very Stepford wives on holiday in Tuscany. Our Lady in […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: advertising campaigns, gardening, glamour, graphic design, photography, typography
by Le Fist
More randomness_
Categories: random • Tags: slogans, typography
by Le Fist
The cover of the menu at The Water Poet, Spitalfields, London. A v.good pub. 9-11 Foldgate Street, E1
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: slogans, typography
by Le Fist
A doorway I came across today. Love the retro typeface, how the different blues contrast with each other, the colour of door and the yellow of the text. Also love the graphic quality the metal grid lends and the dynamic between the resulting rectilinear forms, the yellow dots and curviness of the typeface. Its almost as if the whole thing was plotted on graph paper_ Doesn’t that deep blue scream Yves Klein? Yves Klein: Blue Cup, 2006 And all those […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, graphic design, london, photography, typography
by Le Fist
What better way to usher in the new menswear collections than with a tribute to Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray? The novel was reissued Four Corners Books in a magazine format entitled “A Young Man of Extraordinary Personal Beauty”. The cover is in an unusual shade of sky blue but I’ve presented it here in monotone. I treasure it so much that I still keep it in its original cellophane sleeve. The artwork was by Gareth Jones and […]
Categories: oscar wilde, rare books, reading material • Tags: books, colour studies, Four Corners Books, graphic design, oscar wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, typography
by Le Fist
I was just walking home in the snow when I saw this by the side of a van. Random, I know, but me likey. Accidental Font.
Categories: random • Tags: typography
by Le Fist
Hmmmph, loving this blog at the moment – Styling and Salvage. Very clever man that Rupert Blanchard. Does some lovely things with bits and bobs. Beautiful. Very good eye. Click on the link in the right hand column.
Categories: des res, home improvements, simply lovely • Tags: design, interiors, salvage, shopping, typography
