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Vintage lingerie ads by René Gruau (1909-2004).

Plus, check out Dior’s pre-Galliano-firing Spring 2011 Gruau tribute.

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‘one more time’

BBC bird-filled animated version of Count Basie’s version of April in Paris (1957) – the song that just wouldn’t end.

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The calligraphic art of Belgrade-based Marko Davidovic.

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A collection of Czechoslovakian book covers. More over at 50 Watts.

Found via Mirko Humbert

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Cover design by El Lissitzky for Roget Ginzburger’s Frankreich (France) 1929.

From Neues Bauen in der Welt, a book series on modern architecture published in Vienna.

Below, recent release by Brooklyn-based Dream Diary, El Lissitzky.

Dream Diary: El Lissitzky

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The work of Murat Pak.

Found via Monsieur Bandit

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Nicky Bradwell survived my typography and design history classes and is now making music. Each month, he’ll have a new FLAVOR on Soundcloud.

Facebook page here.

MarchFLAVOR by superhumanyouth

TripleRainbowMix by superhumanyouth

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‘Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2,053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998.’

Over the years, the US has set off over a thousand nukes. Something I never really knew.

Skip thru to the early 1960s and the multiples of blasts end up looking like Christmas lights.

Found via Marian Bantjes

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The work of Lim Heng Swee.

Pink Floyd: Breathe in the Air/On the Run (demo versions)

Found via Robert Boord

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Alice sent me a link to this image cause she said it reminded her of something I would say in one of my classes.

Image by UK-based eska.

Found via Alice Woodruff

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‘Can we add serifs to Gotham?’

One thing I like about Obama: He knows good design.

In 2008, his campaign lifted political propaganda out of the long ass slump it had been in. The fonts of choice were Eric Gill’s Perpetua and Tobias Frere-Jones’ Gotham.

And revealed this week: 2012 graphics featuring a custom slab serif version of Gotham.

So when The President calls wanting a font change, Hoefler & Frere-Jones were ready to oblige.

Found via Hoefler & Frere-Jones

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