Wim Crouwel Reprint
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- Sane_Six
Wim Crouwel has granted Blanka permission to reproduce his classic vorm gevers poster. Edition of 250 Units. First 50 SIgned. Nice
- amongthemasses0
nice. Thanks for the heads up.
- 7point340
janne?
- organic_grid0
that's great news, thanks.
- mimeartist0
purchased
- Leigh0
This will be sold out by the end of the week.
- Dancer0
I know this is slightly off topic but that Blanka site is so unsable and takes forever to load. When will they design and build a decent site that shows of their wares properly? Till then I am buying nothing from then
*folds arms and sits down
- alexand0
Ordered! I hope Mark wasn't lying to me and I get one from around print 30.
Why didn't I just bite the bullet and order it yesterday? I am an idiot!
- Hannman0
May be slightly cynical of me and yes it is a very iconic and beautiful poster and yes 50 are signed in a rock and roll star style... but £100 for a reproduction... you can get original Munich posters for that.
- even less than that, I picked up 2 Munich posters from Ebay, £50 each. There's always tons on Ebay.scribbler
- I have some munich ones that i'm putting on eBay soonmimeartist
- James, would you consider a private sale??uncle_helv
- uncle_helv0
I have the same problem with them Hannman, £100 for a re-print is a bit too much, why could he not have signed all £250?
- For an extra fiver he'll throw in the pen he used to sign em.ian
- Yaff0
if you pay 120, you get the poster and a hand job from wim crouwel
- 23kon0
100 squid!
i sniff greed!
- drgs0
i dont see whats so extraordinary about it
- In it's day it was (and still is) probably the embodiment of Modernist graphic designuncle_helv
- gramme0
Call me tasteless, but I just never really picked up what Crouwel was putting down. Semi-legible, grid-locking, geometric typography has never done anything for me.
Now our friend janne, he's a zebra of a different stripe altogether.
- uncle_helv0
Put him into context though gramme... what he was creating was pretty avant garde, compared to the apparent sterile, austere design of the International Style of that time.
He took the spirit of modernism and fused it with typographic experimentation... functionalism and aesthetics in perfect harmony.
A true L E G E N D!
- gramme0
meh
- Yaff0
yep, he's great and a master of his time. but, fuck paying 100 quid for a reprint of a poster.
- Jaline0
Whatever. It's like any seemingly over-priced piece of art. It is worth millions to someone.
- mimeartist0
i got the idea mag with him in it last week... and that was £32.50 for a magazine! Worth it though as it has loads of stuff in it
- ha! i bought that yesterday from magma.Leigh
- I have that too James it cost me £25, admittedly expensive, but I see it as more book than mag!uncle_helv