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de Bijenkorf poster

Contributed by Tânia Raposo on Jul 15th, 2013. Artwork published in .
de Bijenkorf poster
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“90 years – one step ahead”
Poster for the Dutch chain of high-end department stores de Bijenkorf (“The Beehive”).

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2 Comments on “de Bijenkorf poster”

  1. I’ve seen the logo before knowing the name and always thought, “Oh, what a nice bell.”

    It’s also funny to see how the leading looks wrong between een and 90, does this qualify as a special case of the Spiekermannsche Lehrsatz?

  2. Haha, indeed, I had that too. Re line spacing (it looks like it’s set without leading) – you’re right that it looks weird but the Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz is about the Murphy-Law of clashing a- and descenders in a line. Here fate was forebearing with us. In display cases like this I sometimes adjust line spacing to be optically OK, not necessarily exactly the same in all lines.

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