White Rose Tea
Two ads.
The Scream?
A Time cover by Edel Rodriguez.
Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
I am the happy possessor of the second edition of A Humument. Looking at any page is an inspiration.
“Better than the one that I’m in”
Donald Evans, talking to the Paris Review about his postage-stamp art (creating stamps from imaginary countries).
Space hotel
The future future looks so much like the future past.
A suggestion from Annie Atkins
From a series of COVID-era postcards.
Milton Glaser (1929–2020)
The graphic designer who gave us I♥︎NY.
マンホール蓋
Today’s Zippy takes us to Japan, where manhole covers are things of beauty.
Moving to Elgin Park
The creator of an imaginary town has died.
An interview with Annie Atkins
Maker of graphic props for film, lead graphic designer for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Folk facade
A study for the facade of the Museum of American Folk Art.
Heads up
Whoever designed the posters and their sequence must have put much thought into — and taken much pleasure from — the work.
Henry Dreyfuss ice cream
An ice-cream label.
Repurposeful art deco
Ruth Gerth’s 1931 “Glow Lamp.”
Tobias Frere-Jones on cigar-box edging
“Everything is collected by somebody, and I’m grateful for that. Ephemera, the fragile snapshots of everyday design, would be lost without collectors.”
Milwaukee bus passes
Just beautiful.
From a title page
A Funk & Wagnalls logo.
An Erik Spiekermann poster
“Start reading. Stop Googling.”
Canned Heat and Cooper-Hewitt
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day today: a 1968 concert poster for Canned Heat at the Fillmore West.
Bernhard’s cat
Lucian Bernhard, creator of the Cat’s Paw logo and much more.
Antique Packaging
Antique Packaging is a book of photographs of old cardboard boxes.
IBEW logo
“It’s the juxtaposition of crackling electricity and proper attire that gets me.”
Penguin Great Ideas, fifth series
New covers
Telephone Brand Agar-Agar
From Thailand, in a beautiful package