Jun 18th 08

Vintage Car Logos and Typography

A few months ago I was at the Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, Arizona and was drawn to all of the fantastic vintage logos. The shiny chrome typography truly evokes an era when cruising was a pastime and global climate change wasn’t a concern. I pulled out my iPhone and snapped as many of the logos as I could.

It’s no secret that iPhone’s camera isn’t the greatest — and iPhone 3G doesn’t bring any improvements — so many of the photos were pretty shitty (oxymoron). I did my best in Lightroom to polish them up for your viewing pleasure. The retro typography is quite nice to look at, and might be a source of inspiration for you designers out there. Here’s a couple of my favorites:

Karmann Ghia

Malibu

The other 21 can be found at Flickr. Enjoy.

Jun 16th 03

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Do you see the image? If not, back away from your screen and squint your eyes. Compliments of ASCII-O-Matic at typogranism, which was mentioned by Zeldman. Make sure you check out the rest of their experiemnts with Flash – very cool!