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    Herman Miller     ads     design     funiture     history     vintage     orange    
    vintage ads for Herman Miller
(above Timeline advertisement, c. 1960)

    vintage ads for Herman Miller

    (above Timeline advertisement, c. 1960)

    street art     murals     unusual     ornate    
    street art made of frosting and sugar
Artist Shelley Miller created an impressive azulejos-inspired sugar mural in Victoria, British Columbia. The Stained mural was installed on an a public exterior wall and left up until the rain takes its toll.

“Miller’s use of sugar goes beyond just the novelty of a using a confection in an outdoor art installation.  The artist also uses sugar to draw parallels between the history of the sugar industry and its remnants. For an ongoing project in Brazil, the artist decorated several dilapidated buildings with faux-Portuguese tiles. Brazil, once a booming industry leader in the sugar industry, is now faced with extreme poverty in many areas and echoes of the slave labor that fueled the industry. Ironically, sugar is now considered a luxury in many of these areas, so local children have been known to break off samples of Miller’s art installations to nibble on them.” —Inhabitat

    street art made of frosting and sugar

    Artist Shelley Miller created an impressive azulejos-inspired sugar mural in Victoria, British Columbia. The Stained mural was installed on an a public exterior wall and left up until the rain takes its toll.

    “Miller’s use of sugar goes beyond just the novelty of a using a confection in an outdoor art installation.  The artist also uses sugar to draw parallels between the history of the sugar industry and its remnants. For an ongoing project in Brazil, the artist decorated several dilapidated buildings with faux-Portuguese tiles. Brazil, once a booming industry leader in the sugar industry, is now faced with extreme poverty in many areas and echoes of the slave labor that fueled the industry. Ironically, sugar is now considered a luxury in many of these areas, so local children have been known to break off samples of Miller’s art installations to nibble on them.” —Inhabitat

    books     covers     Vonnegut     illustration     fiction     eye     design    
    While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut, book cover design by Lynn Buckley
After Carin Goldberg’s strong, iconic branding system for Vonnegut classics in the late 1980s, it was likely an exciting challenge for a cover designer to repackage the backlist again. Lynn Buckley established a new paperback series design for the books in 2009, which extends to previously unpublished works.

    While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut, book cover design by Lynn Buckley

    After Carin Goldberg’s strong, iconic branding system for Vonnegut classics in the late 1980s, it was likely an exciting challenge for a cover designer to repackage the backlist again. Lynn Buckley established a new paperback series design for the books in 2009, which extends to previously unpublished works.

    cameras     industrial design     IKEA    
    IKEA’s Cardboard Digital Camera

“The camera will shoot up to 40 exposures, and these can then be transferred to the device of your choice via USB (via the flip-out plug). As you can see from the photo, the camera runs on a pair of AA batteries, and the internal memory is purged by inserting a paper clip into the trash-hole.” —Cult of Mac

(photograph by zoffy, given out in a press kit at Milan’s Fuorisalone design show)

    IKEA’s Cardboard Digital Camera

    “The camera will shoot up to 40 exposures, and these can then be transferred to the device of your choice via USB (via the flip-out plug). As you can see from the photo, the camera runs on a pair of AA batteries, and the internal memory is purged by inserting a paper clip into the trash-hole.”
    Cult of Mac

    (photograph by zoffy, given out in a press kit at Milan’s Fuorisalone design show)

    vinyl     records     music     color     organized neatly     photography    
    Record Sleeves arranged by color and photographed by George Benson

“…The series purely looks at the colour of the record sleeves grouping music by colour alone, mixing rich cross genres of sound together. The unseen collection of music, avoids the need to name or identify to influence or be known. Instead the photographs create a rhythm of colour, light and shade that resonates with its musical content.” —George Benson on “Colour of Music” series


(via Feature Shot)

    Record Sleeves arranged by color and photographed by George Benson

    “…The series purely looks at the colour of the record sleeves grouping music by colour alone, mixing rich cross genres of sound together. The unseen collection of music, avoids the need to name or identify to influence or be known. Instead the photographs create a rhythm of colour, light and shade that resonates with its musical content.”
    —George Benson on “Colour of Music” series

    red & orange record sleeves organized by George Benson



    (via Feature Shot)

    1960s     May     colors     stamps     typography     vintage     design    
    logos     brands     design     history     typography    
    Polaroid     photography     unusual    
    Ruined Polaroids
William Miller photographed the Ruined Polaroids series using a broken Polaroid-SX-70 camera.
(via Design Bureau via Triangulation)

    Ruined Polaroids

    William Miller photographed the Ruined Polaroids series using a broken Polaroid-SX-70 camera.

    (via Design Bureau via Triangulation)

    packaging     fun     moustaches     chocolate     food    
    Mr. Chocolate
For the Chocolat Factory, Diego Ramos (Ruiz+company) designed “Mr. Chocolate” packaging for 6 different moustache variations. The packaging fun is carried throughout the Chocolat Factory’s line of chocolate products.
(via The Dieline)

    Mr. Chocolate

    For the Chocolat Factory, Diego Ramos (Ruiz+company) designed “Mr. Chocolate” packaging for 6 different moustache variations. The packaging fun is carried throughout the Chocolat Factory’s line of chocolate products.


    (via The Dieline)

    letters     mistakes     pencil     print    
    film     motion     title sequences     tv     Mad Men    

    The Art of Film & TV Title Design (via PBS Off Book series)

    Haruki Murakami     design     books     covers    
    The three volume, Vintage paperback boxed set for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, designed by John Gall, publishes on May 15th, 2012.

    The three volume, Vintage paperback boxed set for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, designed by John Gall, publishes on May 15th, 2012.

    photography     unusual     colors    
    photographs of dust by Klaus Pichler
(first discovered via feature shot)

    photographs of dust by Klaus Pichler

    (first discovered via feature shot)

    The Lorax     covers     illustration     magazines     trees     logos    
    coverjunkie:

Metropoli (Spain)
New La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish newspaper El Mundo Ace art direction by Rodrigo Sánchez, read here about his favorite covers on this special Coverjunkie post and here about his exhibition at La Casa Encendida museum last year in Madrid

    coverjunkie:

    Metropoli (Spain)

    New La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish newspaper El Mundo 

    Ace art direction by Rodrigo Sánchez, read here about his favorite covers on this special Coverjunkie post and here about his exhibition at La Casa Encendida museum last year in Madrid
    books     bookstore     bookshelves     nostalgia     reading     documentary     video     UK    

    Half a Million Books

    Gerda Babiedaite (student at Brighton University) made a short and sweet documentary about the history and longevity of Camilla’s Bookshop, sellers of second-hand & antiquarian books.

    “…I found the place absolutely fascinating and wondered about who would own such a shop. It was heartening to see so many browsers in the place, especially at a time when new and second-hand books are easy and generally cheap to buy online and the number of e-readers is on the rise.  Although, it is sadly pointed out in the film that Camilla’s is the last of 5 second-hand bookshops that were in the town at one time…” —Gerda Babiedaite, A Fiction Habit

    (first discovered via Tattered Cover)