Back to the Eighties: a decade filled with bold typefaces goes viral again

08 Jul / 2019 / Scanner /

This year marks 30 years since the Design Museum opened its door in 1989.

To celebrate the occasion, the weekly Twitter frenzy #Fontsunday was all about those eighties. From Neville Brody and Emigre magazine through iconic American graphic designer, artist and educator Edward Fella and the Japanese maestros of poetic type -Koichi Sato's zen approach to design will melt your heart- the eighties may well have been one of the boldest decades in the typographic realm.

With Stranger Things relaunching a love for all things eighties (and ITCBenguiat) this #FontSunday is filled with memories and electric dreams of type.

For more check here.

Cover of Spare Rib magazine, September of 1982 @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #eighties @britishlibrary pic.twitter.com/cz8FpmAx5o
— aline (@poesiealbums) July 7, 2019

Thank you to everyone who took part in this eighties themed #fontsunday. Here's a final one from the Design Museum. pic.twitter.com/I77pMU5p8u
— Basque Design Museum (@basque_design) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday A. G. Fronzoni’s poster design for Orskov, Skulptur Galerie Doktor Glas, Stockholm, 1989. #eighties @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/QY2q4tEtE8
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday imagine there’s been plenty of I-D magazine - but here’s Malcolm Garrett’s (?) I-D Lady Di cover (issue 5 1981) and then this one from 1985 which is so 80s it hurts @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/6jniqXiLaA
— murraygm (@grigomcmahon) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday Poster designed by April Greiman, for the exhibition The Modern Poster, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988. #eighties @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/a0g6O7nIOK
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) July 7, 2019

RT MorseLibby: The quintessential 1980s TV show used a typeface that was a homage to Miami’s Art Deco heritage. #80s DesignMuseum #FontSunday pic.twitter.com/ry9Kwstozg
— Basque Design Museum (@basque_design) July 7, 2019

Rainbow Magnetics.
Blank VHS. #eighties #fontsunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/xpSMb5YkK4
— Selected Works (@selectedworks_) July 7, 2019

80’s #JamesWhite #Typography #FontSunday #Eighties pic.twitter.com/TMweswWQXc
— Justin (@JustinTruffle) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday Press advertisements for Time Out magazine, designed by 8vo, 1985. #eighties @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/lgFG4Q0EXd
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday In 1981 Condé Nast announced it was a reviving Vanity Fair, with the legendary Bea Freitler as art director. She produced a dummy issue that would set the style for the relaunched publication, but would sadly die shortly after it’s completion. #eighties @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/PCnOAnkwQK
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) July 7, 2019

Thank you for all the eighties fonts so far! Keep them coming for #fontsunday! pic.twitter.com/7SegfSGgyE
— Design Museum (@DesignMuseum) July 7, 2019

Home computing in the #eighties was a strange place, but it did start me off on the coding path. At the time, these brands pointed to the future (gazes into the distance, misty-eyed)...@DesignMuseum #FontSunday #80s pic.twitter.com/AJrZDQxHPi
— Russ | Easy As OMC (@easyasomc) July 7, 2019

CS design award trophy (gold and chrome plated brass) designed by Takenobu Igarashi, 1982 @DesignMusuem #80s #FontSunday pic.twitter.com/4TGHihaFXy
— Patrick Myles (@Patrick_Myles) July 7, 2019

.@DesignMuseum’s eighties fonts #fontsunday — Japanese exhibition: The Modern Poster. #KoichiSato 1988 @MuseumModernArt. pic.twitter.com/p8de6NnQ44
— Armando Roque(@ArmandoRoqueCcs) July 7, 2019

.@DesignMuseum’s eighties fonts #fontsunday — @i_D magazine covers. pic.twitter.com/In6eJnDhJN
— Armando Roque (@ArmandoRoqueCcs) July 7, 2019

#FontSunday 'The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries' – Covers from #Emigre Magazine from 1988, 1986 and 1989.@DesignMuseum #80s #Typography #GraphicDesign #Design #Type pic.twitter.com/E87MAWAUou
— MHD / Graphic Design (@MHD_Studio) July 7, 2019

This years marks 30 years since the Design Museum opened its door in 1989. To celebrate the occasion, tomorrow's #fontsunday from noon is eighties fonts. pic.twitter.com/xeHDQiOnpQ
— Design Museum (@DesignMuseum) July 6, 2019

#FontSunday The #eighties work of designer, artist and educator Ed Fella. @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/ERyQKcuBR0
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) July 7, 2019