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UPDATE: I tracked down a copy of ANSI MH6.1-1968, "Pictorial Markings for Handling of Goods" at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City and (once we got copyright permission from ANSI) they scanned it for me. It's a cool old document but it did not contain the PERISHABLE symbol.

With ANSI MH6.1 out of the running, there is one remaining likely candidate in the bibliography from Henry Dreyfuss's 1972 "Symbols Sourcebook" and that is a system of signs Herbert Lindinger made or compiled for Olivetti

6 Aug 2022 at 20:27 | Open on friend.camp
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kit replied to kit

I emailed the Olivetti Archives a couple weeks ago and have not heard back. I have been looking for information on Herbert Lindinger and it looks like he may still be alive! Or if he died, nobody has updated his wikipedia page.

I have not found a contact for him yet but have emailed a German university he was associated with to see if they have any way to contact him.

What if this is the designer of the label and he is still alive??

6 Aug 2022 at 20:30 | Open on friend.camp
kit replied to kit

found his website and holy shit he designed everything from trains and buses to computer fonts to corporate logos (like mont blanc) and it looks like he and his team even designed the all the greatest hits from ISO 780 like the FRAGILE wine glass, the KEEP DRY umbrella, and the THIS SIDE UP double arrow. didn't see the PERISHABLE symbol on his website but I just sent him an email about it.

please check out his web page; it's rad as hell
lindingerdesign.de/cms/index.p

found his website and holy shit he designed everything from trains and buses to computer fonts to corporate logos (like mont blanc) and it looks like he and his team even designed the all the greatest hits from ISO 780 like the FRAGILE wine glass, the KEEP DRY umbrella, and the THIS SIDE UP double arrow. didn't see the PERISHABLE symbol on his website but I just sent him an email about it.

6 Aug 2022 at 21:03 | Open on friend.camp
wakest ⁂ replied to kit

@kit omg this whole thread is magnificent

6 Aug 2022 at 21:45 | Open on social.wake.st
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK replied to wakest

@liaizon @kit

I was a kid in the 70s and it seemed to be a boom time for graphic design (especially that used on public infrastructure)..

Also worth a look at is the work of Margaret Calvert from Britain, who designed many fonts used on British transport related infrastructure and the current set of road signs which are still seen by everyone in the UK today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret

6 Aug 2022 at 22:13 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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