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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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

Three small sample books with black and white retro illustrations and typography over a solid color background. One is red, one is gold, and one is a slate greenish-gray. The illustrations are of metal mechanical parts. The designs are wild and messy. Harmony within disarray.
Three small sample books with black and white retro illustrations and typography over a solid color background. One is red, one is gold, and one is a slate greenish-gray. The illustrations are of metal mechanical parts. The designs are wild and messy. Harmony within disarray.
Three small sample books with black and white retro illustrations and typography over a solid color background. One is red, one is gold, and one is a slate greenish-gray. The illustrations are of metal mechanical parts. The designs are wild and messy. Harmony within disarray.
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Joshua Graves
@joshua@hooray.computer replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@markwyner this and the CSA images are rad. I used a lot of them for alt art to promote my book

http://joshuagraves.me/making/art/we-need-to-talk/

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Bram Meehan
@BramMeehan@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@markwyner OH HELL YEAH

Photo of French Paper swatch books: Dur-O-Tone, Muscletone (later?), Smart White, SmartWhite (later?), Kraft-Tone, and Muscletone.
Photo of French Paper swatch books: Dur-O-Tone, Muscletone (later?), Smart White, SmartWhite (later?), Kraft-Tone, and Muscletone.
Photo of French Paper swatch books: Dur-O-Tone, Muscletone (later?), Smart White, SmartWhite (later?), Kraft-Tone, and Muscletone.
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@BramMeehan 😍

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Bram Meehan
@BramMeehan@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@markwyner Tell me you were in design in the ’90s without telling me you were in design the ’90s.

Photo of a CSA Zippo lighter.
Photo of a CSA Zippo lighter.
Photo of a CSA Zippo lighter.
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@BramMeehan 😂

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markc568
@markc568@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@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!

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@markc568 man, what a great field trip. How awesome is that.

Glad you enjoyed the nostalgia.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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

Holding a hard copy of the CSA Archive book. The cover is an illustration of a spin-to-win wheel with various retro line-art illustrations on it. There’s lots of typography all over the cover with splashes of neutral colors. The title reads “original and historic illustrations. CSA Archive line art catalog of stock art.”
Holding a hard copy of the CSA Archive book. The cover is an illustration of a spin-to-win wheel with various retro line-art illustrations on it. There’s lots of typography all over the cover with splashes of neutral colors. The title reads “original and historic illustrations. CSA Archive line art catalog of stock art.”
Holding a hard copy of the CSA Archive book. The cover is an illustration of a spin-to-win wheel with various retro line-art illustrations on it. There’s lots of typography all over the cover with splashes of neutral colors. The title reads “original and historic illustrations. CSA Archive line art catalog of stock art.”
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Ira F. Cummings
@irafcummings@mastodon.design replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@markwyner Oh shiiit. I hadn’t thought about French in a long time. Send me looking for the CSA site https://csadesign.com/work

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@irafcummings heck yeah! I have the CSA Archive book within reach.

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Ira F. Cummings
@irafcummings@mastodon.design replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Nice!

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CM Harrington
@octothorpe@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@markwyner ALL THE TONES!!!

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@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.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@octothorpe facts.

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