“History’s Best Toys: All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys” (via TIME)

profile of a fireworks collector, Maurice Evans
(first discovered via @chocolategirl64 via Spitalfields Life)

collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps
(via BibliOdyssey)

“B for Bookseller” by Paul Thurlby

vintage valentine: see-saw

Mojo’s opening and end credit sequence for the “telemovie,” Love in a Cab

(via Forget the Film, Watch the Titles, warning: thought this was pretty fun just wish autoplay was turned off)

“Love In Any Language” buttons
(via ArtsyFartsyFarm)

vintage Simplex Typewriter (first discovered via B-Kay)

Textiles & Objects poster for Herman Miller c. 1961 (via Matte Stephens)

vintage cigar gift box designs by Paul Rand
(first discovered via Ars Longa vis Graphis #85)

Guest Alphabet by Luke Lukas
(for the Daily Drop Cap)

Spirograph Clock designed by bRainbow
(via madeit) 

Kate Spade has many new B Mine e-valentine’s for 2011 created by a great collection of artists. The above collage by Dana Lucas is one of my favorites of the lot.

(and here are some highlights from their 2010 heart-filled e-card designs)

“Steve Heller hunts down a Nazi graphics standards manual”  (via Design Observer)

I hesitated on sharing this article when I first saw it. My gut reaction was to turn away from spreading these kind of Nazi related images online, but because of the historical significance and importance I’m letting it go. Back in 2007, I heard Steven Heller speak about his thorough research for the book Iron Fists, and there is no denying that the Hitler regime was a master at visual propaganda.

film poster for Uncle Boonmee, designed by Chris Ware
(first discovered via Vulture)