Oliver Tomas | Text Proportion Utility

Le Corbusier: The modulor (1954)

Oliver Tomas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:31:16 +0000

26/01/12 – Select illustrations from Le Corbusier’s The modulor: a harmonious measure to the human scale universally applicable to architecture and mechanics published by Faber and Faber (1954). Book design and typography based on the proportions of the modulor.

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Images on Flickr
More Le Corbusier posts

Noto ballpoint pen for Lamy by Naoto Fukasawa 2008

Oliver Tomas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:28:02 +0000

22/01/12 – Noto ballpoint pen designed by Naoto Fukasawa for German pen manufacturer Lamy in 2008. Design is restricted to essential functions with a view to good writing. Casing profile is triangular and made of heavy plastic with a matte surface.

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Lamy GmbH

Olympus OM-10 camera system packaging

Oliver Tomas — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:40:21 +0000

27/11/11 – Original packaging design for the OM-10 camera system by Olympus (c. 1979-87): box graphics for camera body, lens and semihard case.

Imre Reiner: Grafika (1947)

Oliver Tomas — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:35:50 +0000

19/09/11 – Selections from Imre Reiner’s Grafika: modern design for advertising and printing published in New York in 1947. English edition limited to 1000 copies.

Sources and related information
Images from Imre Reiner’s Grafika on Flickr

Interkosmos space program stamp series (1970)

Oliver Tomas — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:20:43 +0000

13/09/2011 – Czechoslovak stamp series designed by Jaroslav Lukavský in 1970 for the Interkosmos space program.

Interkosmos was a space exploration program begun in 1967 by the Soviet Union and was designed to include members of allied Warsaw Pact countries in manned and unmanned missions.

Sources and more information
Czechoslovak stamp collection on Flickr
Interkosmos entry on Wikipedia