“Thank You for Shopping With Us!” plastic bag
One of the many swashy Bookman variants from the 1960s somehow survived into the present. This generic shopping bag features a particularly chewed up rendition of unknown origin, overexposed, (too) tightly spaced, with undefined details, and questionable terminal swash forms for r and s. About the only thing that reveals that this is not a decades-old artifact is the recycling info set in Arial. Spotted in New York in 2015.
Formats
- Ephemera (1032)
Topics
- Retail/Shopping (896)
Designers/Agencies
- unknown (3279)
Tagged with
- shopping bags (76)
- plastic (32)
- black and white (1788)
- reversed type (2918)
- only type (1104)
- center-aligned text (1565)
- swashes (583)
- alternate glyphs (1134)
- terminal forms (32)
- exclamation mark (!) (269)
- shopping (29)
- amateur (45)
- tight letterspacing (732)
- 1970s style (159)
Artwork location
- United States (8298)
- New York City (2329)
In Sets
- YPBPA (FRNDN) (5)
1 Comment on ““Thank You for Shopping With Us!” plastic bag”
This bag with its mangled Bookman has become a bit of a meme.
Already in or before 2014, someone blew up the piece of lettering and put it onto a (gallery?) wall.
In 2016, artist Analía Saban made a limited series of prints with a variation reading “Thank You for Shopping Here!” which is part of the LACMA collection.
In 2017, Chad Landenberger did a riff titled “Thank You For Skating”.
And now it made it into the latest newsletter by Source Type.