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    Alvin Lustig     Google     Vivaldi     design     music     records     vintage     vinyl    
    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)

    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)

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    stampdesigns:

Germany Postage Stamp: numeral 1:
trying to track down date and designer

    stampdesigns:

    Germany Postage Stamp: numeral 1:

    trying to track down date and designer

    vintage     mid-century modern     design     history     spaces    
    stewf:

Mid-Century Modern Rest StopsThis 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.

    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.

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

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

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    New York Mag gives a “mini-tour of Partners & Spade,” new venture from Andy Spade
(from article The Spades’ New Bag)

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

    (from article The Spades’ New Bag)

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