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Eric Baker Design Associates is a Manhattan-based design firm established in 1986. Eric teaches the history of graphic design and corporate identity at the School of Visual Arts, and has twice received National Endowment for the Arts Grants for independent design history projects. He is inveterate collector of books and ephemera. Editor's Note: All images link to their original source and are copyright their original owners.
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02.28.09
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We've currently got a huge selection of vintage ads from space and tech magazines from the 50s and 60s (we've got about 500+ more if we can ever get around to scanning and posting them), but of course the only people credited are the ad agencies. There's a huge body of really strong graphic design here that isn't properly credited to its creators, not just their space-buying agencies.
We're open to guesses or any leads whatsoever...even if its like "that looks like so and so's work." Already Lou Danziger has noticed some of his own work and let us know that Dorothy Danziger did the illustrations for it. I don't know how we would have ever found that out if this site weren't up.
No offense to Eric, but part of my major pet peeve with showing "visual inspiration" like this is that it 1) lacks proper crediting of its authors/creators; and 2) lacks context. Realizing we're as much of the problem as we are the solution a lot of times (and fully aware of its difficulties), I'm hoping something like this current project will "open source" some of the solution as well as create a dialogue for the community to engage in.
03.01.09
02:57
You must be new here.
That sounds vaguely similar to a plea to contribute to/fix the design entries at Wikipedia. Perhaps Rick Poynor will now write a scathing review of your silly little Flickr set's errors, to the exclusion of almost any value it may conceivably have.
03.01.09
11:43
03.02.09
01:25
Sadly, not new here...and I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, so I'm not sure how or where I should take my "silly little Flickr set"...
I wouldn't be against any sort of harsh criticism, from him or anyone...though you seem somewhat unwilling to contribute your own--at least nothing more than snarkiness devoid of actual criticism and veiled in vagueness. Perhaps I'm missing something here?
I can't speak to the whole Wikipedia error thing. Its seems like a bit of a stretch to link the two ideas together, but go for it. One is a site proclaiming itself to be both large and serious, our silly little flickr being certainly little, and I hope only somewhat silly with a glimmer of something more.
Maybe its not important to you--that's cool. It might be important to others and I hope they find some interest in it. Eric Baker seems to...
03.02.09
02:21
Snarky, snarky, snarky.
Eric Baker
03.02.09
10:21
Eric,
If what I said were just snark, I'd suspect—even expect—that it would already have been deleted. Derrick unfortunately did get the impression I thought his project was crap and has a follow-up e-mail from me already. Here, I have nothing to add.
03.02.09
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03.03.09
02:48
Sucks cause I was a few tracks into my mixtape response...so many words that rhyme with Su, I was killing it.
03.03.09
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03.03.09
10:01
This made my terrible night so much better.
03.10.09
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