Yuri Gitman makes toys. The student work and curriculum of his class at Parsons is documented on two blogs ( one - two ). Some additional info is on his commercial website.
Visitors from another world learn to break through the barriers to communication. Greetings, Hello, Hi There.
The Yip Yip's were created for Sesame Street educational televison in the 1970s. Oddly enough, this reminds me of the handshake procedures used by telecom equipment to establish the fundamental rules for communicating between machines. And I suppose we humans do the same thing, having an etiquette for greeting other people.
Advertising and illustration from the 1930s, 40s, 50s. Duke University has an extensive visual archive covering areas like beauty products, radio and TV, airlines and railroads, and so on.
Link: Ad-Access at Duke Univ
Works Progress Administration (WPA) poster art from the 1930s and 1940s. Here is an index to posters at the US Library of Congress.
Rather remarkable that a city would ban all public signage and advertising. But São Paulo did it.
The outsized billboards and screens that dominate the skyline, promoting everything from automobiles, jeans and cellphones to banks and sex shops, will have to come down. All other forms of publicity in public spaces, like distribution of fliers, will also stop.
There are worries that much of the "vernacular" lettering and signage from small businesses—an important part of the city's history and culture—will be lost.
Marina tells me it is all true and that "the city is much better now."
I wonder if it is motivated by politics of globalization or maybe the same desire for order that spawned Brasilia? Or maybe it is just a city, like most others, making local ordinances to manage growth?
Photo Source: Tony De Marco
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