entries Tagged as [design history]
Technologies of the past
School children in Quebec are asked to guess what these odd, old technologies may be.
Found via Alice Savoie
Man caves!
‘I like the warm glow from the perfect level of indirect, low lighting. I want to be surrounded by my favorite things to look at. And I long for seating that you just melt into and disappear in.’
The week is over, head back to the Man Cave.
Slather on some Man Dom and let the night do its thang.
Teddy Pendergrass: Come Go With Me
Caves found via The Selvedge Yard
Vintage Hanes
Unopened stock from a long-ago closed department store.
Shirt and underwear, but no pants.
Who needs pants anyway?
Clairol True-To-Light VII
Control panel from my mother’s Clairol ‘True-To-Light’ makeup mirror.
Still in daily use after all these years. Here’s the original, original commercial.
Muller-Brockmann
Ad for Hermes typewriters, designed by Josef Müller-Brockmann, 1950.
Müller-Brockmann video homage here.
Found via Josef Muller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design
Mercedes typewriter
Mercedes Schreibmaschine poster by Ernst Dryden, 1911.
handpicked posts
a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
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