Throwback to French Paper Company. Where are my peeps who were fans?
For those who don’t know, French Paper designed a series of sample books like these. The designs and typography was inventive and awe-inspiring. Their work highly influenced me as a designer early in my career.
These are the three I still have.
#Design #Typography #Retro #FrenchPaper #Designer #PrintDesign #Paper
@markwyner this and the CSA images are rad. I used a lot of them for alt art to promote my book
@markwyner OH HELL YEAH
@markwyner Tell me you were in design in the ’90s without telling me you were in design the ’90s.
@markwyner A blast from the past! These were huge when I was in design school.
One of my design studio classes even got to take a day trip to the CSA offices, as we were not all that far away. They were really friendly, and we were all given one of their metal business cards.
I used to have a lot of these sample books around, all long gone.
Thanks for sharing!
@markc568 man, what a great field trip. How awesome is that.
Glad you enjoyed the nostalgia.
Thanks to @irafcummings, I remembered that I also have the CSA Archive stock book on my shelf. I should have shared this with the French Paper books.
#Design #Typography #Retro
#FrenchPaper #Designer #PrintDesign #Paper
@markwyner Oh shiiit. I hadn’t thought about French in a long time. Send me looking for the CSA site https://csadesign.com/work
@irafcummings heck yeah! I have the CSA Archive book within reach.
@markwyner ALL THE TONES!!!
@octothorpe I was flipping through these, and I gotta say, the paper is still bangin’. It looks and feels great. And they’ve been in my studio since maybe 1998. They weren’t lying about the quality of their paper.
