I just stumbled onto this site featuring vintage travel ephemera from the 20s and 30s. All of it is gorgeous. And a large majority of the work looks like current designs that I love today. The main difference is that they actually had to cut and layer everything manually. None of this digital stuff.
A simple blog featuring "a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue" of type.
via: Grain Edit
I am on a big bold color kick right now. As seen by all of the posters I picked out from Poster Cabaret. It is another great site for checking out gig posters.
side note: I do wish that the Cabaret would change their logo font. It is just too cutesy.
The amount of thought that goes into the Penguin covers, spines and series just boggles my mind. So so so beautiful. David Pearson is a current designer for many of their new covers. He features his own as well as old covers on his wonderfully simple site.
via: Rifle blog
We play this video if we need instant giggles in our house. I have a thing for the beat guy in this video and in Mahna Mahna.
Design & Typo, le Site by Peter Gabor is chock full of beautiful graphic design. There is page after page of both new and old. I have pulled from the Paul Gabor libraries.
When I first saw Amy Bennett's paintings I thought they were photographs ... similar to the pictures of miniatures featured here, here, and here. Her style is nostalgic + idyllic + a tiny bit dark. I really like them all.
via: BB-Blog
Our awesome new neighbors introduced us to They Might Be Giants, Here Come the ABCs. We are up to over 70 plays on the above song in iTunes. My favorite is hearing D sing "an epidemic of missing letters". I love that the bizarreness of TMBG translates so well into kid's music. And I also love that they are using it for teaching. They have a Here Comes the 123s and a Here Comes Science.
All of the pictures in this Flickr set could be my grandparents. I need to start scanning my Mom's photo library.
I especially love in the picture above the look of the guy on the right. Makes me think that not much has changed in 80 years.
An old family friend is on the board of directors at Stratford Hall. When she called for help with their advertising I had no idea what it was or why it was important. Set on cliffs overlooking the Potomac in northeast Virginia, Stratford Hall was the Lee family plantation. Robert E. Lee being the most famous. But his ancestors, Francis Lightfoot and Richard Henry, signed the Declaration of Independence. This property is yet another of the amazing historical gems in Virginia.
Like many other non-profits, Stratford Hall is hurting with this awful economy. Our friend Kathy has commissioned a friend to create beautiful, one of a kind jewelry in honor of the Lee crest (a squirrel sits at the top). Our ads feature the jewels and will run nationwide in gardening magazines.
We have joined the rest of the world and are now on Facebook. Please be sure to become a Seymour Cornelius fan to see updates on your home page. We will be posting some new work + some new great finds.
And check out some friend's pages whose logos we were privileged to create!
Posts
All Comments
