Art of the Luggage Label

This is why Flickr is awesome. Tom Schifanella has a great collection of vintage luggage labels from around the world.

Hotels in the Afterlife

Haubitz+Zoche have a series of photographs of abandoned resorts in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is featured on BLDGBLOG. These are hotels that will never be finished due to fear of terrorist bombings and corruption.

If you are in Vienna, you can visit their show.

Abandonded Vacation Homes in Taiwan

"These very crazy pod-tastic vacation homes were built as beach getaways for Taipei's middle-class in the 1960s. Each are said to have been abandoned not long after they were built because several mishaps during construction and typhons led inhabitants and locals to deem the sites cursed." Awesome! via Coudal.

: Two Points :

The website, style, and colors of the design firm Two Points reminds me of the great flavors of Barcelona - one of my favorite cities in Europe.

Big News!

AceJet170 has provided the perfect way to announce some pretty big news with images of a fantastic Swiss Air DC-7 Seven Seas brochure.

The big news is that my wife, as part of her work towards her Masters in Public Health, has received an internship at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland for the summer! So, during the months of June and July, I will be trading countries with SwissMiss and posting from Geneva!

More to come as it gets closer!

Installation Art in London's Heathrow Airport

Multi-disciplinary art and design practice, Troika, based in London has created a new art installation in Heathrow Airport.

Really interesting and nice - but when I flew through Heathrow, there wasn't anything pretty and it wasn't that clean and shiny...

Loft and Found

AceJet170 (a great design/type/found blog) has posted images called "Loft and Found" - discarded photographs found in his new loft - and they are amazing! You can read more at his website and see more on his Flickr page.

Feltron.

Nicholas Felton makes some incredibly nice work.

A Bike Rack with a Built-In Air Pump!

Yet again, this art project based in the Netherlands proves that Europe beats America in coolness, environmentalism, and health.

Thanks to SwissMiss.

Citroën 2CV

I first learned about the Citroën 2CV when I was traveling in England. This wonderfully ugly little car seems to have quite a cult following as well as having some amazing promotion materials.

Grant Hamilton

Somehow, I have never posted about the amazing work of Grant Hamilton - but I am now! I especially love his Geometries set.

Also, a huge thanks to Frank for getting this blog to integrate nicely into my website!

1920s and 1930s Travel Ephemera

Another great website with 1920s and 1930s travel ephemera for airlines, the automotive industry, Russia, France and more - from the collection of David Levine. Via Monoscope.

Vintage Travel Posters!

Here is a great link that is speeding over the internet: Vintage Travel Posters!

London Transportation Posters

The London Transport Museum has over 5,000 original transportation posters online for your viewing pleasure! Warning: if you have to get something accomplished this morning, do not go here!

Hand-Painted Movie Posters

Have you ever seen this poster for the movie "Kill Bill?"



Or how about this poster for "The Matrix 3?"



Click here for more amazing Russian hand-painted movie posters.

Wanderlust...

There is nothing that stirs up all of my passions (travel, printing, ephemera) more than looking at old maps. As Coudal said, despite the fact that there are hundreds of beautiful old maps here, you will get lost.

Hand Dryers (or is it driers?)

I had almost forgotten about this, but this Italian Designer blog reminded me that I should link up to my Hand Dryers on Polar Inertia. In 2006, when my wife and I were traveling overseas, I took photographs of hand dryers all over the world. Enjoy!

Roman Duszek

If any of your have ever been through the Warsaw Subway, you will have used my former professors information graphics to allow you to smoothly navigate through the underground.

Roman Duszek, Polish designer, started the graphic design program (that I graduated from) at Missouri State University in 1988. He is an incredibly gifted designer and illustrator and instructor. Honestly, I wish I would have paid more attention in his classes (and maybe not skipped out on one of them) - but it was a pleasure to learn under his strict guidance.

Roman presented at the IIID conference in 2004, and this page shows his presentation. Although not for the faint at heart, this is an amazingly thorough demonstration explaining how he identified the users needs for the signage of the metro.

Maps. How I love thee!

Maps mix everything I love: a sense of travel, old paper, old printing technology... These maps are especially amazing. They show the ancient flood paths of the Mississippi River - from Missouri to Louisana

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On the first of this year, the city of São Paulo banned all outdoor advertising. Good or bad, it certainly is interesting and these photos have such a strange feeling about them...

(this post from Design Observer)

The Mysterious Missing Maps!

Yale University recently had some startling discoveries of missing maps. These maps are some of the earliest known maps to show the new world and date back to the 16th century and earlier.

Also, here is a link to some of their online images of maps in the collection.

Animals in the London Underground!

Too much fun: animal diagrams found in the map of the London Underground.

Historical Photos are always fascinating to me.

Amazing photos of the flood of 1910 in Paris.

Everything old is new again.

A great series of the Walls of China. Where was this series found? Polar Inertia, of course.

A view of Beijing - a city of confusion & wonder

Colors Magazine features the city of Beijing, China - one of the most fascinating cities I have ever visited.

In 24 hours...

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Originally uploaded by onpaperwings.

I have always been amazed at the fact that 24 hours from now I could be walking the streets of Tokyo. Or sitting in the Sydney Opera House watching a performance. Or viewing works of art at the Louvre.

International travel is much easier than most people think. I used to think that Tokyo was beyond my reach - but it certainly is not. Yes, this takes money, but not as much as people think.

Save your money and I hope to see you in Tokyo some day soon.