"For centuries, women have been kept busy wasting their time"
Germaine Greer
Moon
Love this type on the posters.
I love Maps
and this one is a beauty. Via http://veronique.tumblr.com/.
I popped it on my iPhone as a wallpaper and it looks fantastic. Download here.
Vintage Aussie Design: Jerome Gould for Farmer’s Union
This brilliant Farmer’s Union milk and dairy packaging from the 1980s should be revived in my humble opinion.
Via the wonderful Re:Collection, an online archive of Australian graphic design from 1960 - 1980.
The Australia Project
The Australia Project is an exercise in redefining the Australian stereotype and a new opportunity to discuss and explore our cultural identity as a nation.
The Australia Project is asking Australian creatives and the general public, to engage in a national debate regarding the current status of contemporary Australian culture.
We are seeking to explore and redefine clichéd national stereotypes in the hope of revealing unique and personal perspectives on Australia today.
The website is full of fantastic resources on Australian design, culture and identity, including links to Sydney photography project 52 Suburbs, work by Studio Pip & Co’s Andrew Ashton, Kevin Finn as well as other important essays and articles.
Shop: Present & Correct [UK]
Present & Correct is a fantastic online stationery store stocked with British and Korean gems (Korea being the mecca of stationery in my humble opinion).
Felt flowers & fluoro thread
I would be lying if I said I particularly cared for wreaths, however I do love these photographs of creamy felt sewn with fluoro threads, especially some of the shapes sewn on top of each other that create almost a topographic map effect.
From The Purl Bee, via Bloesem
*Gasp* these gorgeous ceramics by Jorine Oosterhoff are delights that look like they hopped out of a Disney movie! I would love a set of these…
Illustration: Claude Coates
I adore the gorgeous illustrations by Coats in this Golden Book edition of Lady and the Tramp by Ward Greene of Walt Disney.
The houses in particular are really charming!
These are all from the wonderful Golden Gems which I found via Karen’s fabulous blog Daily Design Discoveries.
(This is from a really large double-page spread which is now my desktop wallpaper)
Julian Restaurant, Kansas [USA]
I am loving this very complete and polished identity for Kansas restaurant Julian by Brent Anderson + Nathaniel Cooper + Jordan Michael Gray from Bernstein-Rein. View the whole branding photo set on Flickr (via designworklife)
A brand identity and voice for a new neighborhood restaurant in Kansas City that features refined twists on familiar comfort food from James Beard award-winning chef Celina Tio. The name derives from Tio’s main cooking influences – Julia Child and her grandfather Julian. Design elements took cues from Child’s well-known, well-stocked kitchen.
Loving Space
One of my favourite activities is thinking about space and feeling tiny.
This original image is from space.com.
Émile Prisse d’Avesnes (d’Avennes) (1807-1879)
I was very taken by these gorgeous illustrations posted recently over at the indispensable BibliOdyssey. From BibliOdyssey:
Émile Prisse d’Avesnes (d’Avennes) (1807-1879) was an important mid-19th century French Egyptologist and something of a polymath. He was a soldier, engineer, writer, illustrator and talented linguist.
“When he returned to Paris in I860; Prisse brought 300 folio drawings of paintings of various epochs, each up to seven or eight meters (23 to-26 feet) long; 400 meters (1300 feet) of paper impressions of bas-reliefs; 150 photographs of architectural and ornamental details, plans,sections and elevations; and 150 stereoscopic photographs, together with his enormous collection of drawing and notes. He also brought back, and later donated to the Louvre, the skulls of 29 mummies which he had identified by era, position and individual name.” [source]
Incidentally, not long afterwards I was browsing Cooper Union Typography’s post on Aldo Novarese, and a specimen for his typeface Egizio uses a very similar image.
Karen’s Whimsy
I am thoroughly fascinated by history (especially the Middle Ages) and I love to unashamedly indulge in the elaborate, romanticised version of Medieval history that appears in books, films and illustrations. For this reason, I was very excited to stumble upon Karen’s Whimsy, a website containing hundreds of public domain vintage images of everything from King Arthur of Camelot and Medieval Knights to Victorian, Renaissance and other Vintage Fashion. In fact, I believe there are even some images of Molluscs and a section devoted to Celtic Knot Patterns.
