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June 1, 2008
June 2, 2008
Alice in Wonderland journal
John McCain: 1973
Um ... ... wow
NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible
The New Face of Mencap
Very nice numbers
June 3, 2008
Salvage bench made from old chairs and a headboard
Craftster user Sharon.S made this swell bench out of broken-down chairs, a "decrapitated head board" and various bits and pieces. "I am an a self -taught artist and I build furniture out of salvage. I have never entered a contest before, but think this'll be loads of fun! The first picture is of two chairs that were all wonky and shaky. I cut them apart and used them for the ends of a bench. The back of the bench is made from parts of a decrapitated head board. This whole project (except for the 2X4 frame underneath) is from curbside salvage." Link (via Craft)
June 4, 2008
I heart Letraset
"Letraset Instant Lettering," Eurostile Medium Extended 84pt
Urve Kuusik: Sly Stone
Sly Stone in a rarely seen photo from 1973. Photo by Urve Kuusik.
The 70's were all about pattern!
From a huge set of Cinerama fodder
Via That's Right
Euro RSCG Zürich: Zürich Chamber Orchestra
The sheet-music staff for the last minute of the fourth movement of Beethoven student Ferdinand Ries’s Second Symphony — those five lines on which the clef signs and notes and rests sit — becomes a roller coaster. As the music builds steam, so does the coaster-cam P.O.V. pick up speed, taking hair-pin turns and swooping down vertiginous drops.
Via BoingBoing
Sean M Kinny
From a collection of 70 Amazing Business Cards
Via CPluv
AD&D: Diesel Genes of Sweden
Diesel Genes of Sweden - A creative experiment, aiming to generate an exhibition of unique style expressions to be displayed at the mysterious Diesel XXX party in Stockholm. What's in your genes?
Kitone: "I'm a good girl, sir," she texted
Kill Bill
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June 11, 2008
The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
1966 "Torn Curtain," Director Alfred Hitchcock. 1966 Universal. - Image MPTV.net
Jason Tozer: Soap for Sony
Roost
Housing for the discerning bird
BMW's GINA
yoshitomo nara
LISBON TILES: Wallpaper
Blue Ant Studio: a-z nero
ACW Grey, Israel: Greenpeace Green Bag ad
June 12, 2008
Bemis Balkind: Rosemary's Baby
Via CP
Annemieke Beemster Leverenz
BENEDICT RADCLIFFE
Pictured is ‘Koga Miyata Full Aero Pro’ (extended version) made for the bicycle film festival art exhibition, Joy Ride and based on 1980s classic Japanese racer, Koga Miyata.
Chaumont 08
The catalogue of the 19th International The Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont arrived. It reveals the 127 posters selected for international competition and presents the various exhibitions who take place during the event.
Emigre
Maria Holmer Dahlgren - Bricka Stockholm tray
OrangePiel
Dan Witz
Interview with Dan Witz after the jump
Vintage Alphabet Thesaurus
Via House
chiasso: Stone Doorknocker
38one: Talk Logo
Very nice
June 13, 2008
Alexey Titarenko: City of Shadows
With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee
written by Tejal Rao for Gourmet.
The Chemex coffee maker is part chemist’s funnel, part Erlenmeyer flask, with a blond leather band in the middle corseting its hourglass curves. An iconic symbol of German modernism and simple, functional Bauhaus style, the device—a Pyrex glass container with a sturdy paper filter—produced M.F.K. Fisher’s favorite cup of coffee and still holds an alluring power over coffee purists and design geeks. Its success launched its inventor, Dr. Peter Schlumbohm, into the arms of the design establishment (the coffee maker has been a part of the MOMA’s design collection since 1944, just three years after Schlumbohm patented it), and in the early years of World War II, it was considered a patriotic alternative to products made from metals and plastics (which were essential to the war effort). A Time Magazine article from November 1946 quotes the ebullient inventor as saying, “with the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.”
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“He loved to drink and he loved to eat,” says Roy Doty, a cartoonist who was a friend of the late inventor, “so going out for dinner with Dr. Schlumbohm was a horrifying experience.” Guests were treated to epic all-night food crawls in his huge Cadillac Coupe De Ville, which he pimped out with built-in shades and a solid-gold Chemex coffee maker bolted to the driver’s door. (When he traded in his car every two years, he removed the golden amulet and set it on the newer, larger model.) Like many German immigrants, Schlumbohm felt at home in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, once a stronghold of German restaurants and coffee shops. He drove his guests up into the 80s, handed anyone loitering near the area a ten-dollar bill to watch the car, and then marched in for his first course. Soon, they all piled back into the car and moved on to the next joint. “Eventually,” says Doty, “you’d be somewhere eating streusel with him and by that time it was two or three in the morning.” But three in the morning was nothing to Schlumbohm, who surrounded himself with fellow night owls and often made calls around that time to discuss his newest ideas.
When he did return home, it was, unsurprisingly, to a bachelor penthouse on 5th Avenue—a peeping Tom’s paradise overlooking Greenwich Village, with thousands of dollars worth of binoculars dangling from the windows, and ice buckets stocked with perpetually chilling German beers and wines at the front door for visitors. “He
June 14, 2008
Candykiller x Letter Pressed Series Print #4
julie doucet
European Design
A very inspiring overview of european design at the winners of the EDAward 2008
June 15, 2008
made in china limited
June 16, 2008
Emil Kozak
June 18, 2008
Rubicon Rucksack Baby Bag
Eames Stamps
June 20, 2008
Laser-cut typographic scarves
June 21, 2008
A Selection of Images in Tribute to the Plate Fork Crown
June 23, 2008
House Woolistic
House goes bicycling
June 25, 2008
Degree Shows 08: D&AD New Blood 2
Poster by Kevin Murphy of Croydon
June 26, 2008
Reflet
NEWWORK MAGAZINE ISSUE N.2
Via Serif
New Yorker Fiction Pages
Bill Van Werden: Image Fulgurator
Here's an interesting tool for photographic graffiti. Julius von Bismarck's device detects the flash of another camera and illuminates text onto anything, meanwhile, the photographer has no idea how the text appeared in their photo. Check out the video.
Michael Kenna: Silent World
This is a MUST see, really, I'm not kidding. Go spend some time looking at his work.
Domestika: MadInSpain '08
ibride: Wunderkammer-esque serving trays
Fukosawa: Maruni collection
BBDO: Dodge Challenger advertising
June 27, 2008
Penmanship
By Alvin R. Dunton, B
. Harrison, J. W. C
. Gilman, John D
. Williams, Silas
Sadler Packard
Published 1877
J.W.C. Gilman & Co.
Danny Yount: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang titles
Characters for an Epic Tale
ryan johnson
'trophy’ 2008
ryan johnson is a young artist born in karachi, pakistan who now lives and works in brooklyn new york. he recently closed his third solo show ‘watchmen’, displayed at new york’s guild & greyshkul gallery.
June 28, 2008
Eric Tan: Wall-e poster
June 30, 2008
Fluxus Stationery
George Maciunas, 1966
GARY TAXALI
The Hub
Nice work over there
