@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialWrapping Paper for Kao Soap, 1930 by Hiromu Hara
archived by Kanata
“Hara won the design competition for this wrapping paper design and a prize equivalent to five to six times his salary, which was the start of his career as a graphic designer.”
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialAnti-Nuclear Pin Badges, c 1980
archived by lara (Norwich, UK)
“Part of my grandfather's collection from the 1980s. Anti-nuclear activism was triggered by NATOs decision to deploy hundreds of American nuclear weapons across Western European countries.”
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialMcCarthy Peace poster, 1968 by Ben Shahn
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialRudi Gernreich’s Red, White, Blue Alphabet Print Silk Scarf, c. 1965 and modeled by Peggy Moffitt
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialRochester City Mark, designed by Lee Green in 1976
archived by Leah Wirley @leahwirley
“Flour City” and “Flower City,” Rochester was the largest manufacturer of baking flour in the early 19th century, and became known for its large nursery + seed industries.
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@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialLance Corporal Norakuro comic by Suiho Tagawa, 1969
archived by Yusuke Namba from their personal collection
“This is a case for storing the early Japanese comic book. The title on the case was uniquely designed + drawn in a fascinating style.”
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialThe Government Has Blood On Its Hands sticker by Gran Fury, 1988
archived by UF x Design @ufdesigners @dr__dori
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social1915 National Tennis Championship poster
designed by Jan Willem Sluiter
archived by UF x Design
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@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialLevi’s Tennis advertisement 1977 by M. Schwab
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialTribute to Nik Dmitriev, Evening Alone, designed by Igor Gurovich in 2008
archived by Elli Nesterovsky @ellinest.png
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialMarlboro Man ad, 1966
archived by Lulu
Leo Burnett for Philip Morris International
“This poster is a part of Marlboro’s campaign in 1954 to 1999, initially produced during the times where filtered cigarettes were considered feminine.”
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@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social“Free Angela Davis” Poster by Tymofiy Lyashchuk, 1975
“This take on the Free Angela Davis movement was issued in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or URSR (which looks like YPCP in Cyrillic script).” (Swann Auction House)
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialWhat is the relationship between what we archive and what we consume?
What gets preserved (and what doesn’t) is itself a form of editorial judgment, usually invisible to users. Check out some of the top 10 most-viewed items in PGDA.
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialDas Freundliche Handzeichen (The Friendly Hand Signal) by Josef Müller-Brockmann, 1954
archived by UF x Design
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@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialInvitation for “Black Artists in the New York Scene,” 1974
illustrated by Dindga McCannon
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social“Lo-Res” type samples by Zuzana Licko for Emigre Inc., c. 1985
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialCapitalism also depends on domestic labour screenprint calender by See Red Women’s Workshop, 1975
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialAmerican Labor Party poster, 1936
Exhibited at the New York Historical Society's "Art as Activism: Graphic Art from the Merrill C. Berman Collection" event
Archived by @marinabyocean
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialLabor Day event poster by Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas, after 1957 applying an image from America’s Answer poster by Jean Carlu, 1942
archived by HuaGao
@peoplesgdarchive.bsky.socialTypeface design by Fred S. Bertsch and Oswald Cooper, 1914
The hand-drawn letterforms are a precursor to Oswald Cooper's Cooper Black in 1922. Now associated with the 1970s, the typeface connected to the Arts and Crafts movement and the desire for organic forms.
