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The evolution of the Dr. Bronner label from 1973 to 2015.
Adventures in molded plywood
The Charles and Ray Eames leg splint.
xkcd : “Work”
Everything gets designed.
Red Rose redesign
The new design looks older, flatter, plainer. The tea tag is dowdier too.
CSS
The Comprehensive Storage System Wall Unit, designed by George Nelson, manufactured by Herman Miller.
Russel Wright’s American Modern
Cooper Hewitt’s Object of the Day: a brochure for Steubenville Pottery’s American Modern dinnerware.
Rev. Robert Palladino (1932–2016)
Steve Jobs sat in on his calligraphy class.
Henry Dreyfuss ice cream
An ice-cream label.
Goodbye, “M”
First the Metropolitan Museum of Art ended the use of the “M” admission button, and now it’s doing away with the “M” altogether, a beautiful and art-historical “M.”
Tube Benders
A 99% Invisible episode about neon.
Repurposeful art deco
Ruth Gerth’s 1931 “Glow Lamp.”
iOS 9, uppercase, lowercase
I like the look of the lowercase keyboard, I really do, but switching from lowercase to uppercase via the Shift key is jarring, as I noticed every time I typed a capital letter.
TWA, JFK
The photographer Max Tuohey tours the Trans World Flight Center, aka the TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Pencil and paper
Khoi Vinh recently surveyed designers about the tools they use.
Eames radios
Experiments in the plywood-molding process.
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.
From The Noun Project
The Noun Project aims to create “a visual language of icons anyone can understand.”
“Operative Potters”
What’s an “operative potter”?
An Erik Spiekermann poster
“Start reading. Stop Googling.”
Old Grote
“Our Grote medicine cabinet is now gone, along with our other bathroom fixtures. Goodbye, old Grote. Goodbye, inside-cabinet-door labels.”
One more from Dreyfuss
The Princess telephone.
Dial D for Dreyfuss
Telephones.
Helvetica, eww
Helvetica Neue. Eww.
Protecting the Chuck
Converse All Stars in court.
Tobias Frere-Jones’s blog
Tobias Frere-Jones’s eponymous blog is a thing of beauty.
Color dictionaries
“Designed to give people around the world a common vocabulary to describe the colors of everything from rocks and flowers to stars, birds, and postage stamps.”
Testers
Little inspection slips from new clothes. Four languages, two to a side, 1 5/8" x 2 1/8".
Rolodex
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day.