“Thank You for Shopping With Us!” plastic bag
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by Nick Sherman and tagged with “bookman”. License: CC BY-NC-SA.
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.
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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.