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02/02/2010

BEST STRIPES

one of my all time favorites. Mayle shirt, image from Impulse/Totokaelo.

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02/01/2010

WHAT TYPE ARE YOU?

Erin is Plastica

Nicole is Cooper Black Italic

pentagram’s what type are you? via stephanie

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01/27/2010

ANTHRO HANKIES

images of the anthro handkerchief cards before we sent them off!

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01/26/2010

ASTRID’S RECIPE FOR SLEEP

1. a full belly
2. her “woof woof”
3. her sleep sack (a well worn hand-me-down. Made by hand. I think she is the fifth child to sleep in it.)
4. 500 miles (unfortunately it’s with my singing)

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01/25/2010

SHEAFF EPHEMERA

Holy wow. A dizzying amount of incredible printed ephemera at Sheaff Ephemera

I have always found myself keenly interested in a seemingly endless list of vintage things, especially ephemera: stamps, postal history, trade cards, billheads, trade cards, broadsides, cartes-de-visite, stereo views, tickets, engravings, chromolithographs, early American glass, Irish blown three-mold glass, patent medicine bottles, flasks, almanacs, postcards, marbled paper, early letterpress printing, typography, books, African art, record album covers, airbrushed restaurant china, Micronesian tapa cloth . . . . I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I’ve long thought that what I’d most like to do in life, in some better world, would be to put out an ongoing series of high-quality, small publications about such things. As a graphic and publication designer with all the appropriate software, one would think I’d be in a fine position to do just that.

But it ain’t that easy. Especially in today’s publishing and economic environment, the idea of putting out a lot of ink-on-paper is just not practical. Or even sane. Eventually I realized that what I can do—and fairly easily—is scan the images, write the words and then simply post them online. I get it out of my system, and the material gets out there in front of the eyes of anyone who may be interested. Win win. So, here goes . . .
—Dick Sheaff

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01/22/2010

A JOURNEY ROUND MY SKULL

Maria Rosa by Vera Kelsey and Candido Portinari (1942) from A Journey Round My Skull’s flickr. See more incredible book covers and illustrations at Will’s blog.

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HEART

at our etsy shop.

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01/21/2010

HAT

I love this beautiful winter hat (and image) from elisabeth

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