Showing posts with label Forbidden Planet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forbidden Planet. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2013

Typography: SPY Magazine


SPY

Drenttel Doyle Partners, Design Directors
October 1986 – February 1987

Alexander Isley, Art Director
March 1987 – June 1988

B.W. Honeycutt, Art Director
September 1988 – November 1991

Christiaan Kuypers, Art Director
December 1991 – July-August 1993

David Kaestle, Consulting Art Director
September 1993 – December 1993-January 1994

Alexander Knowlton, Art Director
February 1994 – March 1994

Robert J. George, Design Director
July-August 1994 – June 1995

Lisa Marie Giordani, Art Director
October 1995 – March 1998

1980s 1990s

My client, Forbidden Planet, advertised in SPY.
Below are postcards and invitations I received.

August 15, 1986

August 20, 1986


January 29, 1987

February 6, 1987

February 11, 1987

February 23, 1987

March 4, 1987

March 13, 1987

March 20, 1987


December 15, 1987

1988


(Next post on Monday: 3-D Comics)

Monday, July 23, 2012

Street Scene: Forbidden Planet


N E W Y O R K C I T Y
821 Broadway at 12th Street, original Manhattan location

Broadway view
12th Street view

1996 relocation: 840 Broadway at 13th Street; logo by Alex Jay

Broadway view
Broadway view
13th Street view

Forbidden Planet moves to 832 Broadway on July 24, 2012.

(Next post on Monday: Asian American International Film Festival)

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Anatomy of a Logo: Forbidden Planet, Part 2


In 1984, Mike Luckman requested a new logo design.


Letterhead comp; head of the store mascot
was removed

Enlargement of above sketch

Tight rendering of logo

Adjustments made to a few letters and spacing

Letterhead comp

Letterhead comp; the head of the store mascot
was removed

Art in India ink on 2-ply plate-finished bristol board;
3 5/32 by 13 29/32 inches / 8 by 35.3 centimeters.
This logo was used for the next 20 years.

Envelope and business cards

Letterhead

Advertisement for the uptown store
appeared in Locus May 1985.

Small shopping bag

Canvas tote bag

Redesigned business cards

Calendar bookmarks

A selection of store signing promotions

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

Production art for 1996 Village Voice ad

My headline but not my postcard design.

(Part 1; next post on Friday: Ira Schnapp)