Monthly Archives: March 2009

Fragrant, Tempting, Delicious CANDY

I really love the colors and type in this old cookbook page scanned in by Pete Ryan.

Wooden glasses frames by Scott Urban

Urban Spectacles consists of hand carved glasses frames made of wood. The glasses are beautiful and unique, I just wish the photos and website would do them justice. Via myturtleneck (a very promising newish blog)

Auto Tuning

After a long stressful few days this video was just the thing I needed. CS-S-S-S-S…

How to alphabetize your google reader feed list

So I was searching around, trying to figure out how to get my Google Reader to alphabetize my subscriptions list because it makes it easier for me to find a specific site when I want to. It used to do it automatically every time I added a new feed, but a while back it stopped, [...]

Freelensing photography technique

*UPDATE* Since this post has been growing in popularity recently I thought I’d update it to link to a couple things: – Luke Roberts explains freelensing in more detail. – Photojojo adds some advice for people that want to try it. I’m loving this technique that Luke Roberts is exploring that he calls Freelensing. In [...]

E.T. Means Exercising Together

This Exercising Together album cover from 1982 has to be the most fabulous thing I have seen in weeks. I love how they are shamelessly trying to cash in on the E.T. movie’s hype. I found this while browsing through Flickr user IAAFOTS’s collection of vintage and retro imagery. Thanks to Mid-Century Modernist for pointing [...]

New logos for Obama administration by Chris Glass and Aaron Draplin

I just heard about Obama unveiling the new logos for the ARRA and TIGER programs. Not only are they awesome, but they were done by some awesome people, namely Chris Glass (who has a knack for finding great things on the internet) and Aaron Draplin (who amused me greatly in this rant about bad design [...]

Ellen McFadden’s amazing design catalog on Flickr

I just discovered Ellen McFadden‘s huge collection of historical graphic design images on Flickr. Not only is there a lot to look at, but most of them are available in high resolution. Also, she adds very interesting and enlightening commentary on each of them that is worth reading as you browse. The two above images [...]

100 meter long photo by Simon Hoegsberg

Photographer Simon Hoegsberg created a fantastic 100 meter long photo entitled We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence. It was pieced together from photos taken in the same spot over the course of 20 days. There’s some really interesting people in the photo, and I really love the way it’s presented on the [...]