entries Tagged as [design history]

Bowie Jagger dance

Dancing in the Street, 1985.

Clean food

Found via Library of Congress

Food

From 1978: The work of Arnie Lynde.

Found via It’s Nice That

Doomsday Train

From 1970.


Boombox: Doomsday Train

Sleeve found via Klaus Hiltscher

Trans Europe Express

Video for Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express. From 1977.

Paris.Havre.New York

‘Chemins de fer de l’état, Cie. Gle. Transatlantique.’

Vintage travel poster, art by Albert Sébille (1874-1953). More here.

Audrey, train

Found via Culturenik

Remix everything


Part 1

‘Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine’

4-part documentary by NYC-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson.


Part 2


Part 3

Part 4 is in production, donations accepted here.

Website here, Facebook page here. Remixes (inspired by part 3) here and here.

Found via Creative Bits

Album mixes

The work of Christian Marclay. Monograph here.

Found via This Blog Rules

Charted: 30 years of music sales

Found via Heidi Andermack, mashKULTURE

Homefront in color

‘Between 1939 and 1944, the OWI and the Farm Security Administration made thousands of photographs, approximately 1,600 of them in color’

Despite what my dad told me, the 1930s and 40s were actually in color.

More pics here, here, here and here.


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