Racing by Numbers

Grain Edit found a great collection of vintage Porsche posters for sale. Well, some of them are for sale because a lot are already sold, buy they can be seen in the VP Racing poster archive. I’ve had a good look through them and I love the ones by Atelier Strenger - to me they make the 60s and 70s the golden age of Porsche posters - such tight composition, typesetting and use of photography! I’ve traced a couple of examples of type from this Strenger one and the numbers from this Holz one. Lovely stuff.

Update: Eric Strenger’s work is a clearly rather special, but there’s precious little out there about him. There’s a little bit here, where it says he designed the Porsche logotype… and yet, there’s virtually nothing online. Anyone know of books/biographies on the guy?

Update 2: Moritz sent this link to a short biography of him. Looks like the preferred spelling of his name is Erich too.

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