‘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
Unopened stock from a long-ago closed department store.
Shirt and underwear, but no pants.
Who needs pants anyway?
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.
From my intermediate typography course: Student Allie Olcese’s experimental redesign of CD packaging for Head Like a Kite’s Random Portraits of the Home Movie.
Interpretative imagery veers from found photography, illustration, finger paints to hypodermic needles, gummy worms and tin foil – rendered in subdued, faded colors.
The final piece is housed in a wire-bound album, accented with carefully set 1970s-style shareware type.
‘inspiring homes with heart’
Magazines are great sources for inspiration. Not as permanent as a logo – or brand – periodicals have a timer on them. After a few months, they’re gone.
A good newsstand is a treasure trove of the experimental, conservative, international, concise, good, bad, ugly. I drop by whatever I can find – even the Barney Noble chain if one is not nearby – just for a shot in the arm.
Earlier this year I spotted Chandler 42 being used in an Australian interiors pub. Alexendria-based Inside Out is using my typewriter type as a nice accent throughout their pages.
Here’s a few snaps (taken in my new home office – sleepy dog in background).
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
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