Principles of Security
I've been really entranced lately (as everyone seems to be) with the influence of vintage aesthetics on new designers' work - in art, design and typography (mainly thanks to Grain Edit and So Much Pileup, et al.) - and that's a good thing. Yet, the originals are even more enjoyable (imo), which sparked the realization that there was probably a whole host of design paraphernalia sitting right under my other nostril...
As you've witnessed from prior posts, I've raided my mom's shelves and found a ton of juicy morsels on this theme. But one would assume that from her, knowing that she's an artist of sorts. Though now that I'm in temporary working quarters, on the other side of the city, sitting next to an old bookshelf crowded full with some of my dad's dated financial stuff, one would loosely drop the notion that design existed at all.
He tends to collect things (without orderly intention) which includes boxes, bags, and shelves full of motivational, self-help, and financial audio & visual resources - you know, metaphorical pats-on-the-back to keep one on the right track - but I don't know why I didn't assume that there might be some good things in there. The stuff is old. So after some hard-core scavenging, this is a little of what I found...
Click on any of the images for a larger view, and be sure to check out the full Flickr set for some notable scans of the interiors.
© 1967 by Perrin Stryker
© 1975 McCahan Foundation
© 1977 by South-Western Publishing Co.
I personally love the "Accounting Principles" odd mixture of type styles, but the whole "Sharing the Risk" book - cover to cover, graphics and layout - is pretty darn good.
It's obviously not all great design here (which I'm sure was casually overlooked by the intended audience), but at the very least is an interesting chronology of accidental art collected on one saleman's bookshelf.
I'll be posting more on this theme this weekend.
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