Otl Aicher posters
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- Engage0
Jens you can always just email the fella... He takes requests too.. I'm missing a couple from the whole set which he said he'll let me know if he gets them...
Have mailed you
- ********0
Really appreciate that James
Cheers
- frankiefido0
FUCK!
- gradiate0
HaHa sorry Jens. Drop the guy the mail.
- Engage0
did you get any others this afternoon?
- gradiate0
Bought two for friends.
- Engage0
packed mine up safely away from my girlfriend, she was showing them to her parents... while dragging them around the table, while I had my head in my hands!
- Jaline0
haha, I would've plastic-coated mine or something if I had people showing other people my collectibles ;)
- Engage0
gonna stick one on ebay as have a duplicate, and is an equestrian one, and have no posh hockey sticks friends to give that one too
- Jaline0
I would buy it if I could. I'm obsessed with the Olympics, hockey, + art.
- material-10
sheeeet!
- build0
Do you think they are originals?
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- build0
Sorry, stupid question, how do you know they are originals for sure?
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- Engage0
guess will never know for sure...
but he had some in worse condition with water damage... and a box full of ticket etc...
plus some he only had a few of...
the official guidebook he gave me was deffo legit... even had polaroids of the olympic flame inside which I found when i got home...
either way the colours are amazingly vibrant, and the silver print sharp... and worth the 20 quid
- build0
Wish i lived a little more central now.
Thanks James/Engage.
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- build0
:D[anke].
- steven0
I brought some from greenwich market. like engage says you will never know wether they are true originals (good price anyway) but this is what makes me think they are:
1. They had a range of brochures which couldn't have been forged.
2. These looked aged and smelt old. They had tickets with watermarks.
3. The colours of the posters are extremeley vibrant.
4. They looked aged. Some were damaged.
5. If they are forged they have been done very well. Which means a lot of trouble to produce some posters that the average person wouldnt have a clue about. So if they had gone through all the trouble to make good fakes, I'm sure they'd be selling then on ebay and getting their moneys worth.
A great find either way.
- pbaber0
...you're welcome!
gradiate, the black and white posters were designed for Isny, a german city. He designed a vast set of pictograms using the system he created for the olympics to promote the town and for cultural events etc.
And they are not reproductions. It wouldn'y be cost-efficient to reproduce them anyway, there isn't enough interest. The sports posters are 'fairly' common anyway —hundreds of thousands were sold to the public as souvenirs.
- alnove0
Engage, there wasn't a marathon poster in your 23 was there?