Everything Old Is New Again

The giant cereal company, General Mills, has released a set of vintage designs for some of their popular cereals. The above Kix box has insanely awesome type! The DieLine has more information.

A Continious Lean

"A Continuous Lean is about things. American things, good looking things, well designed things and all sorts of other things. Sometimes A Continuous Lean even talks about people and ideas. That’s it, keep it simple. More good, less bad."

Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police

Wired Magazine has a great article about the Stasi (East German Secret Police) and how just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, they shredded 45 million documents in an effort to get rid of the evidence of spying on their own people.

Now, a team of German computer scientists are trying to trying to piece together some of those papers to find out the stories of the past. Fascinating!

The Great War Book Jackets

Book jackets from World War One.

Matchbooks

Matchbooks. Lots and lots of matchbooks.

Dan Funderburgh

Dan Funderburgh makes very interesting art pieces and prints and other things. His work is difficult to describe, so just check it out!

Akzidenz Grotesk on the Streets

I had posted a few images of this project a while back, but now I have found more information about it - Tobias Battenberg took typography and a projector to the streets and made some very interesting photographs.

Twentysix Abandoned Gas Stations

Working off of Ed Rushas's Twentysix Gas Stations, Eric Tabuchi has photographed Twentysix Abandoned Gas Stations. Great stuff!

New York City Subway Destination Prints

These old New York City Subway Destination Prints are quite nice!

Lettering of Brooklyn

Paul Shaw has been documenting the commercial and residential lettering of Brooklyn and has written a great article with photos all about it!

Hyllie Water Tower

Like something straight out of a science fiction film, this water tower in Hyllie, Sweden is something amazing.

Letter Museum in Berlin

The Letter Museum’s mission is the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems. Yet another reason I need to visit Berlin!

Posting Hiatus

I'm off to warmer climates with my passport in hand for a long weekend, so posting will take a snowbird holiday as well.

The Inauguration. At Last.

Maira Kalman (of whom I have posted before) went to the recent Presidential Inauguration and painted her way through the event. Wonderful!

Futurist Typography

Ace Jet 170 reminded me about the great typographic work done by Futurists.

Graphic Design for Olivetti

Giovanni Pintori made spectacular design for Olivetti Typewriters. So good it hurts!

Vintage German Illustration

The title says it all: Vintage German Illustration

Faux Mid-Century Disney Posters

Greg Maletic made some faux Disney mid-century posters for fun and Disney ended up hiring him - who says personal work doesn't pay?!

Soviet Sci-Fi Architecture

Photographer Frederic Chaubin is documenting 1970's and 80's Soviet Architecture that all has a strange sci-fi feel to it...

David Maisel

I have (and always will) have a love for what I like to call "massive photography." David Maisel's Oblivion Series is one of the best in my opinion.

Westvaco Inspirations

Bradbury Thompson's work for Westvaco in the 1950's was seriously great.

But Does It Float?

Ambiguity lives! But does it float?

Vintage Soda Packaging

The Dieline has a nice post on vintage soda packaging - you should check it out.

Hi-Fi Literature

A great collection of Hi-Fi Stereo manuals and literature - Hi-Fi Lit.

Vintage Posters

I am always a sucker for vintage posters and this French blog always has a choice selection.

Way of Women

Italy's Sportmax Code has an online magazine profiling women artists/designers/thinkers from around the world.