vintage ads for Herman Miller

(above Timeline advertisement, c. 1960)

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

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 Lynn Buckley established a new paperback series design for the books in 2009, which extends to previously unpublished works.

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)

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)

Cuban postage stamps for Mayo 1, 1964

design evolution of the 3M logo

(above c. 1961, via retronaut)

Ruined Polaroids

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

(via Design Bureau via Triangulation)

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)

N is for “No Regrets”

(via W+K 12.8 / Abecedarium)

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

photographs of dust by Klaus Pichler

(first discovered via feature shot)

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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