Just a few days ago I recovered four of the following five posters from my parent's basement. There is far more to this graphic design haul, but I'll start with the Polish posters. My father taught art history and design history, for decades starting in the mid 60s. He has quite a lot of interesting ephemera stored in decidedly non-archival conditions. The Polish posters were sent to my father from my uncle, Stephen Montague who from 1972 to 1974, was on a Fulbright studying composition at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and the Experimental Music Studio of Polish Radio. Four of the posters are for the Warsaw Autumn music festival, which is a festival of contemporary music (now in its 53rd year). I've been trying to find images online of the other Warsaw Autumn posters, but I've only found 1970, I would like to see them all together.
This one I have actually had for two years, I found it in my Grandparents garage in Florida. Unfortunately the lower right hand corner it torn off and the area around it is crumpled. Oddly, I like the two Hilscher posters I have, far more than anything else I have found by him online.
Warsaw Autumn 1973, Hubert Hilscher, 26"x38"
Warsaw Autumn 1974, Jan Mlodozeniec, 26"x38"
I seem to remember this poster hanging in our house when I was a kid.
American Western Painting Exhibit (Amerykanski Zachod)1974, Jan Mlodozeniec,
26"x38"
I don't think there is any way the guy on the left completed that turn, his front foot is off the board.
The guy on the left is doing a "Spinner," a trick where you jump off the board and rotate 360 degrees.
This is a 1970s skateboarding book designed to cash in on the second wave of the skateboarding fad.
This was my mother's Swedish/English vocabulary booklet from 1975 (the booklet was published in 1972). I really like the design. I'm also using its color scheme as an excuse to include an example of 70's Scandinavian furniture/interior design. I scanned this yellow room from the Design from Scandinavia catalog (see more from that publication here: DBG #30).
Warsaw Autumn 1971, Hubert Hilscher, 26"x38"
Warsaw Autumn 1973, Hubert Hilscher, 26"x38"
Warsaw Autumn 1974, Waldemar Swierzy, 26"x38"
Warsaw Autumn 1974, Jan Mlodozeniec, 26"x38"
American Western Painting Exhibit (Amerykanski Zachod)
The guy who is printing my show is a classic car aficionado, as a result, I have been talking about cars a lot over the last several days. I know nothing about cars, I can't even drive stick, but I do appreciate them from a design standpoint. So, in an act of utter procrastination I just spent the last hour or so, doing Google image searches for cars that I think are cool.
