Wim Crouwel Reprint
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- mimeartist0
Received my tube of delight this morning, worth every penny for the sweat that went into making it... just have to get it framed now
- Spookytim0
Blam, I like you purely because your posts are easily much much longer than mine.
Respect.
Oh, and... "tl;dr"
- Duane0
Well done Blam! I've already purchased one, but this write up makes me even happier that I did. You should be commended for your perseverance and the careful attention that was paid to the details.
Coincidentally, just a day or so before Blanka announced this poster, I happened to see an original in the Architecture & Design exhibit on the 4th floor at the MoMA in NYC. I'm not sure if it's part of the permanent collection but it reappears there often. The fact that it was in MoMA let me know how hard it would be to obtain an original. See image below from Xavier Encinas Flickr stream.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rum…
The poster employed a grid that continued to be used by the museum for designing posters and catalogues for nearly 25 years. Crouwel had the grid sheets printed in advance in a light grey - so for the poster he made the lines visible and created the letterforms inside the grid line. The systems he used are quite fascinating. You can see some of the resulting layouts below.
http://www.blanka.co.uk/Design/W…
http://blogs.walkerart.org/desig…
- 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!
- amongthemasses0
nice. Thanks for the heads up.
- 7point340
janne?
- gramme0
meh
- Leigh0
I'm not sure if you saw the reprint New York City Subway Diagram by Vignelli Designs Inc the other week.
500 prints signed for the price of $300, It was online for one day and it sold out.
I tried to purchase it but they wouldn't ship to the uk... anyway i've now been looking on ebay to purchase this print and one went for $689
http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-NYC-Sub…
and another went for $732
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vignelli-NYC…
so for me this Vormgevers reprint for £100 is cheap as chips!
- Jaline0
Great pictures.
- 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
- uncle_helv0
Blam,
Thank you for that post regarding the poster (and the long painstaking process) and let me just begin by saying I think in the main, what you do is great, I like some of the coloboration projects you have organised, and I appreciate the hard work and effort it must take to do what you do, however I find it hard to agree that the pricing at Blanka is anything but a bit odd, for example...Design Project - Process of Printing (£55) — I got a copy of this from a Team Rep gratis, so where on earth did a cover price of £55 come from?
Dalton Maag - Type Specimen Book (£40) — If memory services me right I paid £5-£10 for this direct from Dalton Maag, and isn't it still available from DM?
Spin - Strategic Rail Authority Report (£40) — Isn't this an Annual Report? so how can it have any retail value (other than that it's been designed by Spin) or any value at all to anyone but a shareholder?...but then the A1 poster by This Studio (£20) which put into context seems well underpriced, but in reality is probably the most reasonably priced item! (why is this so cheap in comparison?)
Sorry to bring this up again, but you have to appreciate why people may initially feel (without explanation) that the pricing is just plucked out of the air!
Respect.
- you have done a lot of investigating this morning!ian
- Not really ian, I just have a few bits of what they sell, and I didn't pay anywhere near what Blanka charge!uncle_helv
- organic_grid0
that's great news, thanks.
- 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
Now the Vignelli print, that's something I would've bought. Beautiful.
- 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
- 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