Quick bites about whatever interests me, amuses me, or not.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
35 Vintage Library Posters from the New Deal Era
Between 1936 and 1943 thousands of boldly coloured and graphically diverse posters were produced by the Work Projects Administration, established as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.
(Source: aerogrammestudio.com)
Motivational Megafauna, they’re extinct but they are proud of you.
An 18 second flick through a first edition NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual designed by Massimo Vignelli of Unimark International in 1970.
The last poem in Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s notebook, via the Writers No One Reads Tumblr. The niece of Paul Celan, Meerbaum-Eisinger died at the age of eighteen of typhus in the Mikhailovska labor camp. Fifty-seven poems survived in a notebook titled Blütenlese (Harvest of Blossoms).
Tragedy:
Dec. 23, 1941
This is the hardest: to give yourself
and know that you are unwanted,
to give yourself fully and to think
that you vanish like smoke into the void.Translation by Pearl Fichman.
Infographic: The Evolution Of The Batman Logo, From 1940 To Today
Unlike other superheroes’ emblems, which really don’t serve much of a purpose outside of adorning their costumes, the Caped Crusader’s iconic logo has a vital function: When shining on the skies above Gotham, the silhouette alerts Batman that it’s time for action. For the sake of clarity in times of peril, you’d think it would make sense to keep this all-important signal consistent throughout the years. But apparently, that’s not the case. According to this infographic, the CEO of Wayne Enterprises has overhauled the visual identity of his other venture some 30 times since he founded it in 1940.
The birth of emoticons, one of 100 diagrams that changed the world: Emoticons made a discreet entrance, arriving in print for the first time in this March 30, 1881 issue of Puck magazine. The small item in the middle of this page gives four examples of ‘typographical art’ – joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment.
Long Exposure Photos Capture Years in a Single Frame
In today’s digital age, it takes fractions of a second to snap a picture and capture a moment. But that is too quick for photographer Michael Wesely.
You may have seen these before. Awesome products by Help Remedies inc. They’re not just a funny package either, the bandages are made from hydrocolloid, which is the same type of material used in hospital bandages. The best part is that the packaging is both hilarious AND environmentally friendly: made from recycled materials and is compostable.
Their website is worth taking a look at, even if you don’t intend to buy any of their products - it’s as funny as their packages.
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on …
At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.
Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.
Joy Harjo, “Perhaps the World Ends Here.”
