COVID-19: the typography of soap & how to use it
So we have to come to this. Soap is a bare essential against the coronavirus tide and social distancing is not just an option if you want to protect yourself.
Design Museum's Font Sunday galore featured a variety of soap packaging in a viral thread which cleaned up Twitterfeed with design.
The feed comes handy in times that soap is humanity's latest best friend.
Following are some of our favorite posts but since you have plenty of time, dig deep into the branding of soap here.
Hand wash flying off the shelves? What happened to the timeless bar of soap? Today's #fontsunday is all about soap. Send in your soapy favourites from noon. pic.twitter.com/3rYHqwKYWl
— Design Museum (@DesignMuseum) March 29, 2020
Karl Gerstner’s 60s design for the Swiss Coop’s laundry soap-powder #FontSunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/pjeGCmLG9t
— Donald Soutar (@donald_soutar) March 29, 2020
Vintage Surf Laundry Soap 1950, 1960, 1980s @DesignMuseum #soap #typography #fontsunday pic.twitter.com/u8Fc2nRHAE
— JMM (@juliamordaunt) March 29, 2020
Fight the #COVID19 soap
— kiko84 (@kikocasa844) March 29, 2020
Concept by Guillem Casasús
3D by Borja Alegre @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #Soap pic.twitter.com/aPxcxPufUi
Kirkman Borax Soap @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #Soap pic.twitter.com/3dYrsgnYqU
— Black Tea (@blacktea_design) March 29, 2020
@DesignMuseum
— Gardner Muirhead Art (@Gardmuir) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Soap - Vintage Polish Soap Packaging pic.twitter.com/jzeKFLkumN
1950s OMO Laundry Soap Powder @DesignMuseum #soap #typography #fontsunday pic.twitter.com/ccx7bGlxOk
— JMM (@juliamordaunt) March 29, 2020
The Museum of Dutch Soap Wrappers.https://t.co/9xe26UWt90#FontSunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/LHR6AozIEL
— Present & Correct (@presentcorrect) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Advertising poster for Steinfels #soap, by Herbert Leupin, c.1943. @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/dgpGE1FJ3y
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Steinfels Seife advertising posters, designed by Max Dalang, 1922. #soap @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/J9HAJ07KXZ
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) March 29, 2020
The remnants of my grandma's late fifties sunlight soap stash. #FontSunday pic.twitter.com/AEuCmrpuZg
— ᗪ???????????????? ????????????-???????????????? ✍︎ (@3_esse) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday #Soap polish packaging design from the communist area pic.twitter.com/aPQX9xvUwa
— Val Toch (@juvily) March 29, 2020
Note Style of Package @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #WashYourHands pic.twitter.com/m8OWf8GQ1L
— DairyFonts (@DairyFonts) March 29, 2020
#fontsunday @DesignMuseum
— na(tasha) lepine (@NanaLepine) March 29, 2020
Approx. 1920's Mirabeau Japanese Crabapple Toilet Soap Cardboard Packaging. pic.twitter.com/jiWNmy2Wbr
1916 Ad Resinol Soap Healing Medication Shave Ointment love that #typography @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #soap #vintageads #fonts @typeroom_eu @typedirectors pic.twitter.com/HlGitrW6Yh
— kiko84 (@kikocasa844) March 29, 2020
@DesignMuseum #FontSunday soap-y pic.twitter.com/Bz1EQ3xarX
— cvgate (@cvgate) March 29, 2020
@DesignMuseum
— Gardner Muirhead Art (@Gardmuir) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Soap pic.twitter.com/ewSJ1CjN7G
Malin+Goetz soap packaging #FontSunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/7YcvtZoBYW
— Donald Soutar (@donald_soutar) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Exhibition poster for Andy Warhol at the Pasadena Art Museum, 1970. #soap @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/3h6rDQsxKW
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday @DesignMuseum Dr Bronners All-One Soap, smells amazing too! pic.twitter.com/cOjZCFXBVI
— Batfan (@flyeaglez_fly) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday @DesignMuseum Sunlight Soap pic.twitter.com/yhmY6pYuWs
— Coquessa Jones (@Coquessa) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday 1960’s Sainsbury’s Bio #soap powder packaging; design by the Sainsbury’s in-house design team, lead by Peter Dixon. @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/fUQ9HNQjcs
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) March 29, 2020
Ivory twin cakes@DesignMuseum
— Mr. E (socially distant before it was hip) (@LournEidal) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday #soap pic.twitter.com/CStS8RHWvO
#FontSunday #Dash Dish Soap - Vintage Packaging #typography pic.twitter.com/ceX6NqQfKu
— PYITE???????? (@jlf_420) March 29, 2020
Couldn’t resist a selection of olive soaps @DesignMuseum #FontSunday pic.twitter.com/cInneGIWsn
— Manto Psarelli ◊ Μαντώ Ψαρέλλη (@psarelli) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday Identity for #Soap Co., designed by Paul Belford. @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/dNmqAp520A
— Wayne Ford (@wayneford) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday The genuine Marseille Soap (Savon de Marseille) #Soap @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/1DW8kmgqnw
— Shock Corridor ???????????????? (@Shock_Corridor) March 29, 2020
#FontSunday 2020 13/52 @DesignMuseum #soapfonts J.Sainsbury’s Sandalwood Soap, 1970s. #sainsburys #soap #brown #red #orange #seventies pic.twitter.com/GySeJ8q6dx
— Ben Atkins Design (@BenAtkinsDesign) March 29, 2020
"Wash your hands!" Soviet poster, 1933 pic.twitter.com/7Xrd0fkLj9
— Goglika Gogadze (@goglikagogadze) March 29, 2020
Bonus here is a step-by-step process for effective handwashing via UNICEF.
Step 1: Wet hands with running water.
Step 2: Apply enough soap to cover wet hands.
Step 3: Scrub all surfaces of the hands – including back of hands, between fingers and under nails – for at least 20 seconds.
Step 4: Rinse thoroughly with running water.
Step 5: Dry hands with a clean cloth or single-use towel.
You should wash your hands for at least 20-30 seconds. An easy way to time it is by singing the full happy birthday song, twice.
For all of UNICEF’s guidance on COVID-19, click here.
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