B&O 1983-1984 catalog scanned and cover-recreation for a poster

[lausvi]

I’ve scanned and uploaded the 83/84 B&O catalog to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/bang-olufsen-high-fidelity-1983-1984

I have always liked the image on the cover! I’ve seen pics of another version of the same catalog with white background, added with title ‘Experiences’ on the top. I used the clean image from the catalog that I had, and recreated the titles as close as I could and printed myself an A4-sized poster of it. Looks pretty neat when framed.

The poster-versions of the cover are available as big PNGs in the archive with “BeO_cover_reproduction_black” and “_white”.png

Another B&O catalog cover that I would love to have in better quality would be the 84/85 with the subtitle ‘Freedom in time and space’ (this makes a lovely crossover to Doctor Who…), there is a link on related items on archive.org. I think the 80’s and early 90’s were the pinnacle of their catalogs!

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[matador]

Hi Lausvi,

Could you kindly share a direct link to the hires PNGs?

Also if you mind, a link to the poster you would like to have.

Thank you.

Location: Paris France

[lausvi]

Sure,

here: https://archive.org/download/bang-olufsen-high-fidelity-1983-1984/BeO_cover_reproduction_black.png
and: https://archive.org/download/bang-olufsen-high-fidelity-1983-1984/BeO_cover_reproduction_white.png

and this is the one I’d love to see a better scan: https://archive.org/details/b-o-katalog-1984-85/mode/2up

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[matador]

Hi Lausvi,

All covers being based on photos, the only way to turn them into a “averagely good” poster (say 40×60 cm) would be to have a very hi quality, hi res scan of the cover. because you need to cancel the dot matrix effect of the printing screen by blurring the picture and then sharpening it again. Another method would be to have an hi resolution photo shoot of the cover that “may” cancel that printing evidence.

I’ll look if I have in my catalog collection any of those and see what I can do. In the meantime could you tell me what poster size you would like ?

M.

Location: Paris France

[lausvi]

I was perhaps exaggerating talking about posters, I meant just something printable in about A4 size, which would look neat in a simple frame (like the one I did). Just a high-res scan in something reasonable resolution would be nice.

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[matador]

Hi,

It’s not 100% accurate but, I had that catalog reprinted and it does looks pretty good in A4-ish.

I replicate all the text so it should be crystal clear when printed.

Let me know…

 

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[lausvi]

Thanks matador, this is already the best quality scan I’ve seen of that cover. I’ll see what I could do with it.

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[nils.larsen]

You mean this one…

I might be able to find some time to scan this if there is interest.

Cheers,

-Nils

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[lausvi]

Ha, I was going through a box of B&O parts I have, and found out that I already had the catalog I was looking for, oops 😁

Here’s the finnish cover with some light retouching, for those interested.

Also from another catalog I found, I cropped out this which I thought looks really nice.

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[lausvi]

Regarding the cover of the 83/84 catalog, I found out that it was actually just one part of a larger set of three prints called ‘Nature Morte’ by Poul Ib Henriksen:

       

(Screenshots here for posterity, taken from: https://www.dba.dk/recommerce/forsale/item/17171920)

On a related note; does dba allow registrations from abroad, and do sellers usually accept shipping abroad? I (mistakenly) looked at all the Beo-staff that’s available there! 😅

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[Millemis]

I do not think that a registration from abroad should be a problem.

Just try it, and you will find out!

However, not every seller is willing to ship out of Denmark.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

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