Photographer: Co Rentmeester, 1972, LIFE
I don't exactly know what this photo was supposed to illustrate but searching the LIFE photos for "polaroid" this was one of the results. A beautiful woman, probably Swedish, wearing a t-shirt with an image clearly Swedish. The typical red-painted Swedish cottage, the flagpole, the blue-and-yellow, trees...
This is also an image of Sweden...
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slightly cropped and adjusted panels
The Allen Bellman Splash Page Gallery
"Splash page or sometimes referred to simply as a "splash", is a full page drawing in a comic book. A splash page is often used as the first page of a story, and includes the title and credits. Splashes that are not on the first page of a story are sometimes called interior splash pages. Interior splashes may, or may not include titles and/or credits. A panel that is larger than others on the page is called a splash panel. A splash that appears across two pages of a comic book is called a "double splash" or a two-page spread. Rarely, splash pages will stretch over more than two pages; such multi-page spreads often take the form of fold-out posters." - Wikipedia
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Space Alphabet - an ABC book from 1964 by by Irene Zacks. Pictures by Peter P. Plasencia.
- a set on Flickr uploaded by Ward Jenkins
via Douglas Wilson
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About our new blog header.
I want to make it perfectly clear that the original design is not by me (if anyone thought it was) but by graphic designer Erik Nitsche. It was the cover of an 1950s -1960s internal report of the defense conglomerate General Dynamics Corporation. I found it here, cropped it, removed the background, removed and changed the text and symbols. That was it. I think it looks pretty good but I wouldn't be surprised if I changed it again soon. We'll see.
I quote a quote about Nitsche found in Monoscope:
"Eric Nitsche may not be as well known today as his contemporaries, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, or Saul Bass, but he is their equal. Almost 90 years old, this Swiss born graphic designer is arguably one of the last surviving Modern design pioneers. Although he never claimed to be either a progenitor or follower of any dogma, philosophy, or style other than his own intuition, the work that earned him induction last year into the New York Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame, including the total identity for General Dynamics Corporation from 1955 to 1965 and the series of scientific, music, and world history illustrated books, which he designed and packaged during the 1960s and 1970s, fits squarely into the Modernist tradition."
- Erik Nitsche: The Reluctant Modernist by Steven Heller
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