Rollo Press immortalise an ace collection of 80s disco flyers in book form

Date
16 January 2015

If I’d had the good fortune to live in Mexico City in the 1980s I’d like to think I’d have gone to every disco night going, and wallpapered my bedroom with the flyers from the nights of debauchery I spent knocking back mescal with the locals and getting down to the Bee Gees. Alas, I didn’t grow up there – I wasn’t even alive then – but fortunately for us, Jose Luis Lugo Hernández, the owner of Panther Publishing in Mexico City, has been diligently collecting the flyers for disco nights since the birth of the scene there more than 30 years ago. So we can live vicariously through him.

On uncovering this glorious collection of printed ephemera Rollo Press decided to take the lot and immortalise it in book form, and what a book it has turned out to be. Placing ostentatious printed logos next to illustrated denim-clad ladies, the flyers somehow feel otherworldly without being dated. “The standard for the flyer and poster design of the sound systems movement was set by Jaime Ruelas,” Rollo Press explain on their site, “an independent graphic designer from Mexico City who drew many of the 300 pieces selected from the collection to be featured here.” Check out our interview with Urs Lehni, the founder of Rollo Press, from a couple of years back to find out more about the brilliant stuff they do.

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection (Close-up)

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection (close-up)

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection

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Rollo Press: Mirjam Wirz: Panther’s Collection (Close-up)

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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