Pentagram celebrates their 40th anniversary with this lovely video about their first 4 decades. I’m privileged to have visited their London firm in 2006.
A collection of some items left behind in Iowa, while although they are far away, they make quite a nice collage and are far from forgotten.
Top: Old Folgers Coffee tins received as a Christmas gift
Left: Puppy lamp I stole from my Mom’s stash to sell on ebay
Right: Various magazines from a garage sale years ago
Bottom Left: Vintage postcard found in London
Bottom Right: Dog figurine found in Waverly’s Trinkets and Togs
Found on Creative Review’s website, these posters were hand-made for the band, Dry the River. Each poster took 35 hours to create and were posted around London. Very impressive…making 3D creations out of paper, unfortunately, was never my strong suit but this definitely makes me want to try again!
Click on the photo to see the video.
Link to the exhibition going on in the London Design Museum for Wim Crouwel, who happens to be one of my favorite graphic designers and also Dutch (although he was already a fav before I was pretending to be Dutch).
I’d realllly like to hop over to London for this one and also pick up some Wim wallpaper.
Anyone in need of a Royal Wedding throw-up bag? Keep um handy for the 29th and buy them here from the maker herself, Lydia Leith.
These may also come in handy if you’re looking for souvenir plates.
If cats had thumbs…a Wieden + Kennedy ad.
Wayne Pate
Found through my Aunt, via my mother, is the talented illustrator Wayne Pate.
I seem to recognize some of his stuff but never knew the name with the print. I pulled out some of my favorites that we can all ooo and aahh at now.
Stamp collectors
I’ve always been a bit intrigued with postage stamps. As a kid, when I’d be at my grandparent’s lake home in Minnesota, I’d see my grandma pull out my grandpa’s stamp book with all these blank pages printed with squares where stamps from that year should be glued in, and they’d go through the tiny differences between stamps that, when glanced upon, looked exactly alike. Then when I went to school to study graphic design, I was very fond of a professor of ours who loved to turn almost anything into a tiny stamp. It was always surprising how you could take a large detail from a project and make it into something so small and delicate.
So when I read this article about David Gentleman, who was specifically a stamp designer and was commissioned to design the 1970s stamp for the World Cup for England I went ahead and looked at more of his stuff here.
Here are a few of my favorites…
If anyone else is interested London even has London’s Festival of Stamps. I got kind of excited and started thinking of all the great vintage stamps there could be there!
