The amazing design book collector/sharer Jonathan Turner (insect54) started a Flickr group called Autografik for images of vehicles with modern graphic design applied to them. There’s a lot of good stuff in there and the group is just getting started!
I enjoyed clicking through this nice collection of vintage business cards shared by designer Becca Eley (who also happens to have some nice work in her portfolio that is worth checking out). I especially loved the type in the upper image that I posted, which turns out to be a typeface called Treasury.
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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 [...]
Jane McDevitt of Maraid Design just uploaded a set of old British wresting posters. I love studying old wresting and boxing posters because of how, um… enthusiastic the designers were about typography. Most turn out to be lovably ugly, but occasionally it works in an odd way, like in the example above. [...]
Today’s Featured Flickr Photographer is Coquinete. I love how a lot of her photos capture the imperfect beauty of the parts of nature that most people just walk on by. She also has an interesting music/photo blog called Microphones in the Trees that is worth checking out if you like obscure indie music [...]
Designer Kent Henderson had insomnia one night and decided to scan in this wonderful book entitled Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain from 1864! This is a really fun gallery to click through for anyone interested in vintage woodblock typography or even book design. The amount of detail in the letters is [...]
Today’s Featured Flickr Photographer is Lisa Scheer. She is a master of composing in square format. I love how she takes such mundane scenes and somehow subtly manages to draw out the life and personality of the objects. Her hasselblad set is where the magic happens. Check out her photo blog to [...]
Photographer Grant Hamilton takes a variety of nice photos, but the ones that really caught my eye were the Polaroid shots of found retro stripes. You can buy large prints of some of these at his etsy shop. They would also make great color scheme inspiration for any retro inspired design.
Every once in a while I’m going to feature a Flickr photographer that has consistently been producing quality photos. This week, I’m featuring the photographer that goes by the name Harpy. I’ve narrowed it down to about 5 of my favorites, but there are hundreds of great photos in her photostream. A [...]
I have decided to try something new. Instead of posting a mega post of typographic photography once in a blue moon, I’ll feature each photo separately so that I can post these images more frequently and they each get their own spotlight. I’ve created a separate category for typography photography so that essentially [...]