Junk Type
Typography - Lettering - Badges - Logos
Rizzoli · Print & ebook · April 4, 2017
A graphic compendium of vintage American design and typography.
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- Who it’s for
- A visual history of postwar America, told through industrial typography, icons, badges, and branding.
- Themes
- Postwar American design, Industrial heritage, Vintage typography
- Genres
- Typography, Branding & Logo Design, Design History
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A graphic compendium of vintage American design and typography. Junk Type is a project driven by the passion of one man to document a disappearing aspect of American culture. Bill Rose—aka Recapturist—is a photographer and designer who has spent the last decade traveling across America looking for junkyards, yard sales, antique stores, and other unlikely sources of inspiration to capture examples of postwar American typography and design before they’re lost forever.
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Bringing together more than 400 images, this invaluable book is a visual history of postwar America, told through the distinct typography, icons, badges, and branding of the country’s industrial heritage. From Art Deco–inspired fonts and unique handmade cursive lettering to illustrated insignia and clean graphic logos bearing the influence of European design of the 1960s, these pictures together represent an encyclopedic reference of creative typefaces and graphics. With each photograph representing just a detail—an embossed logo, a specially created icon, or an advertising slogan—this book captures the optimism and pragmatism of a golden age of American industrial creativity and distills it into a charming resource for anyone with an eye (or nostalgia) for vintage design.
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A visual history of postwar America, told through industrial typography, icons, badges, and branding.
Come here for
- Art Deco–inspired fonts and handmade cursive lettering
- Illustrated insignia and clean graphic logos
Expect
- Photographs of design details, including embossed logos and advertising slogans
Where it sits
| Typography | 96% |
|---|---|
| Branding & Logo Design | 38% |
| Design History | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Typography
- Authors
- Bill Rose
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Published
- April 4, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Postwar American design · Industrial heritage · Vintage typography
- Reading lane
- Typography