Sahar ⟀
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Illustrator ⁓ Graphic Artist | Design History Obsessed ⊸ Visual Perfectionist
Variety (1983, Dir. Bette Gordon) 📽️ Cinematography by Tom DiCillo/John Foster. — A strange loneliness runs through the film, about searching for connection and getting lost in the versions of people we create in our minds. #80sCinema #filmsky
Marcello Nizzoli, adding machines: 1/ Olivetti Multisumma 20, 1964 2/ Summa Prima 20, 1974. Slow calculators with no stored memory (beside the paper strip). This changed with the introduction of the microchip in the 1970s.
Visual Coincidence No. 1 — Noticed a few of these before, never gave it a name. Turns out there's more of them than I thought. Posting as I find them. Modern Publicity Vol 34, 1965 / Graphis Vol.25, 1969.
Alone in the Dark (1982, Dir. jack sholder) 📽️ Cinematography by Joseph Mangine — " Preacher likes to set fire to churches; that's his trip. Unfortunately, he does it when there are people inside. " #80sHorror 📼
An early computing magazine with a logotype that still holds up: 'ANALOG', 1984/1985.
1960s FULL LENGTH Arizona Biltmore on the Desert Cowboy Horse Cactus Phoenix AZ
Album cover picks, '60s. It's interesting how both covers are built around the same simple shape: a circle.
Covers on Drug Culture :: Design trying to warn, attract, and understand the people behind the chaos, 1967…1976.
Your eye lands on the same spot every time. That's the point ∘ Designed by Emanuel Kupčík/Radomír Venclík, 60s.
Wendingen • A square-format Dutch magazine known for its constantly changing cover designs and its view into early modernist graphic ideas, 1921...1931.
A study in form and color — German Gebrauchsgraphik magazine covers, 1973/1968.
Not taking the bait... just admiring how the text looks like it's yelling in rhythm :: 'F— You Hippie' Two-sided Communications Company (Com/Co) flyer, 1967.
Shigeo Fukuda • Japanese designer who used minimalism and clever visual tricks to create posters that quietly engaged the viewer, 1965...1993.
U&lc (International Journal of Type and Graphic Design) • Vol. 12 No. 2, 1985.
I Shop Therefore I Am - Printed Paper Shopping Bag ∘ Designed by Barbara Kruger, 1990.
Parallel strategies :: Minimal color, bold contrast, and fractured portraits link the covers despite different authors, 1958/1965.
'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.
Smithereens (1982, Dir. Susan Seidelman) 📽️ Cinematography by Chirine El Khadem. — A raw look at New York's early punk scene. It's small, rough around the edges, but honest about what it's like trying to stand out when everything feels temporary. #80sCinema