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Great Ad Industry Films
I watched the documentary called “Art & Copy” through my Netflix streaming this weekend. Great film! A must see for all in the industry of advertising, marketing, and design.
Definitely can give you pride in our industry to hear the great minds of the recent past and today in our line of work talk about what they love.
“Helvetica” is another good film, by the way, but more specific to the typeface.
New Packaging, Old Rolling Papers
We recently aquired some new books at DBD. The books themselves are as nicely designed and put together as the content within them.
The first book is called “Rolling Paper Graphics” put together by José Lorente and is published by Gingko Press. This book is an amazing collection of rolling paper graphics from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The author organizes the content into seven sections; nature, places, objects, people, typography, textures and advertising. What awaits in each section is an array of beautiful illustrations, type setting, logos, and colors. I didn’t really know what to expect when first seeing what this book was about, but soon found out how addicting it is to look at. The unique illustrations and hand drawn type are very inspiring…