IBM Selectric Composer Type Style Portfolio

1970 :: USA :: IBM

This is a catalog of fonts available for the IBM Selectric Composer electric typewriter. It uses interesting ‘font balls’ that allow the user to swap out the font that they are using for their typewriter.

• Language: English

How do you plan to survive

1986 :: California :: Apple Computers

It’s a… earthquake survival guide by Apple? I found this completely randomly and believe that it was for employees, but I couldn’t find any other documentation about it. The layout of the spreads is incredibly playful and uses cut and pasted images that remind me of Dada collages. They also make the type feel like it is in an earthquake, which is really fun.

• Language: English

Aloha Airlines Pamphlet

1970 :: Hawaii :: Aloha Airlines

The front cover of the Aloha Airlines advertising pamphlet; made to give readers information about routes and prices for travel in Hawaii. The cover screams late-sixties, opting to use the typeface Avant Garde Gothic along with whimsical flower illustrations and orange on yellow colouring. * Language: English

Apple Macintosh Brochure

1984 :: California :: Apple Computers

This is an advertising brochure for the original Macintosh from 1984. It features the old rainbow Apple logo as well as printed layouts that were typical of the period.

• Language: English

Olivetti Multisumma 24 brochure

1964 :: Ivrea, Italy :: Olivetti & C.

An advertising brochure for the Olivetti Multisumma 24 electric calculator.

• Language: Italian

Olivetti Praxis 48 Manuals

c. 1970 :: New York :: Olivetti Corporation of America

The manual for the Olivetti Praxis 40 typewriter.

• Publisher: Bertieri Istituto Grafico: Italy
• Language: English

The Inuit Print / L'estampe inuit

1977 :: Ottawa :: National Museums of Canada

An exhibition catalogue for the National Museum of Man; now the Canadian Museum of Civilization. It features bold colours, strong use of the grid, Swiss typography, and absolutely stunning Inuit prints.

• Language: English & French
• Publisher: National Museums of Canada
• Contributor: Internet Archive

92nd Annual Report

1968 :: Philidelphia :: Philidelphia College of Art

The annual report for the Philidelphia College of Art. Employs bold colours, illustrations, and strong Swiss typography.

• Designer: Kenneth Hiebert
• Typesetting: Cypher Press
• Printing: Falcon Press
• Language: English
• Contributor: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries

Olivetti Underwood Copia II

n.d. :: New York :: Olivetti Underwood Co.

An advertising brochure for the Olivetti Underwood Copia II electrostatic copier. There is no date given, but based on the model number its likely from the late 1960s.

• Language: English

Panthers! Guardian Supplement

February 1970 :: New York :: The Black Panther Party

This supplementary issue of The Guardian newspaper features design work by Emory Douglas, the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 to roughly 1980. Not only is Emory Douglas’ work visually stunning, it is also an important piece of history from the ongoing fight against Black oppression in the United States and abroad.

• Publisher: The Guardian
• Contributor: Mara Cagol Memorial Library
• Language: English

The Black Panther, Vol. 3, No. 5,

25 May 1969 :: San Francisco :: The Black Panther Party

This edition of The Black Panther newspaper features design work by Emory Douglas, the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 to roughly 1980. Not only is Emory Douglas’ work visually stunning, it is also an important piece of history from the ongoing fight against Black oppression in the United States and abroad.

• Contributor: Mara Cagol Memorial Library
• Language: English

I Have a Dream : A Collection of Black Americans on U.S. Postage Stamps

1991 :: United States Postal Service

This stunning 68-page volume, tells the inspirational stories of 28 African Americans through USPS postage stamps. The book contains original portraits by the artist Thomas Blackshear II. Creative direction and design was done by Terrence McCaffrey.

• Language: English

Olivetti Divisumma brochure

1955 :: Ivrea, Italy :: Olivetti & C.

An advertising brochure for the Olivetti Divisumma electric calculator.

• Language: Italian

Olivetti Tetractys brochure

c. 1956 :: Milano, Italy :: Olivetti & C.

An advertising brochure for the Olivetti Tetractys. Possibly done by the graphic designer Marcello Nizzoli?

• Language: Italian

ᑭᒐᒥᐅ ᑎᑎᑐᒐᒋᑦ / Cape Dorset 1971

1971 :: Cape Dorset :: West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative

An exhibition catalogue of stonecut prints and engravings from the Inuit artists of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, North West Territories. It not only is a treasure trove of aesthetic inspiration from a non-western non-white perspective, but it is also a great resource for multilingual typesetting. This exhibition catalog is in Inuktitut Syllabics, French, and English. It is interesting to see how the designer chose to balance the form of the syllabic script with that of the latin script.

• Contributor: Internet Archive
• Language: Inuktitut, English, French