“I’m Thumbody,” c. 1971 pin

(above photo and more cool old stuff via grickily)

Brendan McKnight’s Snow Globe collection

(The Design Files via @hellobrendan, photography by Sean Fennessy)

from the desk of…Chip Kidd

Book cover designer Peter Mendelsund interviews Chip Kidd about his work space.

another neatly organized collection by Anja Mulder

“Cold War Relics: The Wende Museum Saves Communist Design”

Steven Heller interviews the Founder and Director for the Wende Museum in Culver City, Justinian Jampol.

“From toys to chunks of the Berlin Wall, this California-based collection is showing that Cold War design is more than just propaganda.”
—Steven Heller

The publisher Taschen is publishing a large book for “the world’s largest Cold War visual archive” in 2012 to coincide with the Wende Museum’s 10th anniversary.

(via The Atlantic)

“620 Dunnys and Counting,” a collection unboxed and organized in time-lapse video

(via Kidrobot via hakopa)

Beatles VI (1966) record spinning print

(more of Grandpa’s Records photographed by Paul Octavious)

Laura Jones Martinez’s collection of bread ties

What to Do with Design Stuff?

“Did you know you are more likely to be a hoarder if you are a graphic designer than not? So says an independent survey conducted by me in February 2011, when I sampled five people—two of which practiced graphic design and three not. The former were stuffed with stuff. As a hoarder, your hoardings may be neatly and efficiently preserved in expensive acid-free boxes (48 percent of all those queried). Or they may be spread around, randomly filed, stuffed in nooks and crannies (most others). Yet either way, whether anal or anarchic, it is a pseudo-scientific fact that design stuff has a way of growing out of control and beyond rationality…”  —Steven Heller

Above photo is a peak into Steven Heller’s massive “bevvy of books and tschotskes.”

(via AIGA)

instant jealousy: “The Man with 1000 Instant Cameras”

(via petapixel via Pixel Análogo via the personal collection of TM Wong)

In a search for a new hobby, Peter Griffin teaches his son about the “gentle art of philately” on an episode Family Guy.

Day 114: Dice, by Lisa Congdon
(via 20x200)

photography of Collections by Anja Mulder

Uppercase calendar of perpetual calendars
(above is a rough version of the special insert for issue #4 via uppercaseyyc)

A Collection a Day, 2010: Day 1 vintage erasers