STACY 1940 /1950

1940s

leather jackets, workwear, the new look - christian dior, the chinese revolution, penguin book covers, jan tschichold, abram games, raymond loewry, edward mcknight kauffer, ww11 continues, war posters, ericofon, leica camera, first automatic computer developed in usa in 1944, atomic bomb used, the transitor developed by bell labs, 'saturday evening post', norman rockwell, 'picture post', 'kill the fascist reptile' poster, budapest gasworks posters, konecsni, 7 up posters, rene gruau, wolfgang weingart, swiss style, herbert matter, niklaus stoecklin, armin hofmann, max bill, garamond revival, us enters ww2, italy and france give women the right to vote, siam changes to thailand, bebop jazz, swing era continues, the andrew sisters, bob hope, first electronic computer, xerography invented, cherry red lipsticks 1925/pink 196/ yellow127olive 455/khaki 4515 navy539/blacktangerine 123/yellow 120/vibrant teal 3265/fuschia 2385/purple2582/true blue 2727 turquoise 306/ gray 422/ dark gray 436 yellow458/orange 472/ mauve 500/ navy 534/ green 5555/fonts monotype lydian, monotype lydian cursive, bernhard modern, park avenue, bernhard tango, beton, cairo, stymie, karnak, cartoon light, , mehemed fehmy agha, cipe pineles burtin herbert bayer lászló moholy-nagy

1950s

 portfolio magazine, korean war begins, colour tv introduced to usa in 1950, elvis presley first hit in 1956, the birth of cool by miles davis, soviets launch sputnik satellite in 1957, the teenager consumer, coronation of elizabeth2 as queen, fidel castro becomes prime minister of cuba, james dean, univers, swiss/ international style, paul rand, esquire,olivetti- giovanni pintori,phonosuper braun, nikon f , tupperware, 'look', 'vogue', jean carlu, ofen ludin, astral email, savignac, toyko international trade fair 1956, takashi kono, marianne straub warner and son textile, univers 1957, optima 1958, zapf, palantino 1949, melior 1952, recta font1958, novarese, type director's club of new york,ideal family in the suburb image, fonts times new roman, curvinus skyline, pl latin bold, bodoni, futura, futura light, dieter rams, braun, mehemed fehmy agha, alexey brodovitch, charles coiner, william golden, lester beall, will burtin, alvin lustig, ladislav sutnar, and bradbury thompson, joseph müller-brockman.