Tag Archives: The 80's
7.12.2010
Typography 9
Compiling and presenting a list of the best typography of the year, Typography 9 is a collection of typography from the best and brightest designers of 1988. Featuring an array of eclectic typography and their uses, Typography 9 provides a unique glimpse into the prevailing imagery of the late 80’s, while simultaneously serving as inspiration for today.
$60, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.
6.1.2010
This Thursday: Bruce Kalberg Photography
Freshjive presents the Bruce Kalberg / Bruce Caen photography exhibit at Reserve.
Thursday June 3rd, 7:00-11:00 PM
Reserve Store
420 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Bruce Kalberg
From 1979-1984 Bruce Kalberg photographed virtually every band and personality against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood. As publisher and chief creative force behind NO MAGAZINE (NOMAG) Bruce photographed both the music and art scene nightly in his studio in Echo Park creating a portrait of fashion and underground culture like no one else. This was the real culture made up of outsiders, losers, immigrants, Punk Rockers from generation one ...
5.31.2010
NOMAG Digital Issue #3 – Jules Bates
In our third and final installment of digitizing the legendary punk publication NOMAG, we offer a glimpse into an issue dedicated to the passing of photographer Jules Bates, who was a large part of the magazine. Jules was killed in a motorcycle accident while either leaving or arriving to his photo studio at 4th and Normandie in Los Angeles on September 26th, 1982. This issue features lots of his photography, as well as an obituary written by Bruce Kalberg himself. The cover features Suzi Gardner (of L7) and Patrice Rapose, photographed by Bob Seidemann.
Be sure to check out our first ...
5.24.2010
NOMAG Digital Issue #2 – Geza X
For our second installment of digitizing the legendary publication, Reserve LA offers a glimpse into one of the more unique issues of NOMAG. This issue has a feature article on Geza X, a crucial part of the 80’s punk scene, and includes an extremely rare flexi vinyl of Geza X’s “Mean Mr. Mommy Man”. The cover features Rick Wilder of the Mau Maus, photographed by Frank Gargani.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Geza X – Mean Mr. Mommy Man
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Stay tuned, as we will be providing digitized editions of NOMAG on our blog weekly leading up to the exhibit ...
5.18.2010
Reserve LA Presents: NOMAG by Bruce Kalberg
Reserve LA offers a glimpse into LA’s early 80s, punk rock scene via NOMAG.
Edited and published by LA’s punk rock cultural anthropologist Bruce Kalberg, NOMAG featured content against the popular media grain. Filled with controversial contributions from some of LA’s most noted punk icons including Black Flag and Social Distortion, NOMAG blazed a trail for later alternative publications and serves as a time capsule of one of the great pop culture shifts of the early 1980s.
Now for the first time, NOMAG will exist digitally. We will be providing digitized editions of NOMAG on our blog weekly leading up ...
5.10.2010
Candid Little Rock
In the 80’s, people were out, and people were living. No matter where you were at, or what you were doing, whether in Hollywood, California, or Little Rock, Arkansas it seemed as though folks were out and living for the moment. Compiling a collection of iconic black and white photographs, six photographers set out to capture the essence of Little Rock, Arkansas through the people that inhabited the city. Shooting everything from architecture and design, to police men and civilians, Candid Little Rock honestly portrays Arkansas living in the 80’s.
Exerpt from the Preface:
August House compiled a book of black-and-white ...
4.28.2010
The Photography Of Bruce Kalberg / Bruce Caen
Freshjive presents the Bruce Kalberg / Bruce Caen photography exhibit at Reserve.
Thursday June 3rd, 7:00-11:00 PM
Reserve Store
420 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Bruce Kalberg
From 1979-1984 Bruce Kalberg photographed virtually every band and personality against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood. As publisher and chief creative force behind NO MAGAZINE (NOMAG) Bruce photographed both the music and art scene nightly in his studio in Echo Park creating a portrait of fashion and underground culture like no one else. This was the real culture made up of outsiders, losers, immigrants, Punk Rockers from generation ...
4.26.2010
Memphis: Objects, Furniture, and Patterns
The Memphis Group was an Italian design and architecture movement of the 1980s, more specifically a group composed of Italian designers and architects who created a series of products in 1981. Named after the Bob Dylan song Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, the movement was a reaction against the post-Bauhaus “black box” designs of the 1970s and had a sense of humor that was lacking at the time in design.
They disagreed with the approach of the time and challenged the idea that products had to follow conventional shapes and colours and textures and patterns. It was conceived by the group to be a ...
3.8.2010
Design Source Book
Seems like a pretty bold thing to name a book. Either that or just really vague. Whether or not you consider this the design source book, it definitely is full of great designs of all mediums, from “1850 to the present day” (present day being 1989, the year this book was released).
$45.00, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.
2.25.2010
Creativity 11
Creativity 11 is a complete pictorial record of Creativity ‘81, a show sponsored, judged, and hung by Art Direction magazine. Super great book full of early 80’s design work, and in amazing condition.
Excerpt from preface:
“This annual presents over 840 award winning visual solutions from every school and style of advertising art and design, illustration, photography, type design and type layout. All media are represented: collateral; packaging; annual reports; television; print media—from newspapers to consumer, to business publications, letterheads, logos etc.”
$100.00, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.
2.22.2010
Graphis Posters 84
A great book filled with beautiful poster designs from all around the world during 1983-84. A great reference specifically for 1980’s poster design that isn’t quite the hyper-colorful stuff from the later 80’s everyone would expect.
Excerpt from preface:
“The cover picture by Holger Mathies—a brightly coloured armchair sitting complacently in a brown field—symbolizes one essence of poster art: the injection of light and color into an often dull daily round. Of course posters are primarily intended to sell products or to draw attention to exhibitions or performances, but behind this primary function a second raison d’être is concealed: the artistic dimension ...
Street Art: The Punk Poster In San Francisco