vintage design by Max Huber for Borsalino
(via 80magazine)

discovered that today is the 332nd anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s birthday after pondering why the Google logo was updated with what I thought were broken violins…

(spotted above record for sale on eBay for a high price tag, also see Alvin Lustig “LP cover design, fresh from 1954” via Elina Minn, & looks like Javier García got lucky)

stampdesigns:

Germany Postage Stamp: numeral 1:

trying to track down date and designer

stewf:

Mid-Century Modern Rest Stops
This two-year-old post on The Mid-Century Modernist has become a gathering place for these historically significant public designs, like those of the WPA, that remain uncredited, and often unappreciated, by America’s administrators. Rather than maintain them, many are being replaced with banal, uninteresting structures. Have a favorite rest area shelter? Submit it! Let’s archive these beauties for posterity.

vintage wall clock by George Nelson & Associates, c. 1955
(discovered via Daily Icon)

vintage board game designs
(via The Watsonian)

vintage designs by Tom Eckersley
(discovered via Grain Edit)

stampdesigns:

Switzerland Postage Stamp: Pro Fauna

c. 1959

designed by Celestino Piatti

J. S. Bach & Vivaldi record album cover by Alvin Lustig, c. 1953
(discovered via flickr pool via Javier Garcia)

wow. incredible collection of posters from Puerto Rico c. 1952-85
(above poster by Rafael Tufiño, discovered via brainpicker)

modern Dutch architecture stamps

vintage advertising posters
(randomly discovered via Wikimedia Commons)

New York Mag gives a “mini-tour of Partners & Spade,” new venture from Andy Spade

(from article The Spades’ New Bag)

vintage stamps for the Olympic Games

vintage valentine: mechanical w/ camera