from the world and the world wide web
Now I have a new house, I'm strangely drawn to fancy storage. And as I am now slowly ditching various other ways of collecting information online (especially in the wake of the Pinterest t&c furore), there may well be a resurgence of this kind of note to myself on blogging platforms... but that's for another post.
I can currently see 12 very mischievous magpies from my window, so this print by Woop studios seems very appropriate.
Woop Studios have made a series of prints, each of which illustrate a collective noun. I like an aurora of polar bears.
My brother and his girlfriend bought me two of these for my birthday. The pattern is Diablo by Susie Cooper for Wedgwood. I love the contrast between the crisp white coffee can and matt black saucer.
Posting this here as a reminder to check out more of these simple desktop designs from this curated site.
This is a lovely flickr set that was pointed out in a call for submissions for new designs on the UPPERCASE Journal blog.
There's a 30 November 2010 deadline for designing a contemporary version including: "...design, typography and illustrations that pay homage to these small treasures of graphic design. Traditionally, the box label messages were public service announcements, recommending citizens "Eat Vegetables" or "Be Careful with Matches" or "Save For Happiness" or "Alcohol Will Sink Your Plans". Or they celebrate more decorative topics like animals, national sports or fables. What is your modern take in subject matter for a modern matchbox label? Printed inexpensively, specimens from the 50s and 60s have lovely misregistration, overprinting and dot patterns. Feel free to emulate these effects in your design. The best ones will be published in the winter edition of UPPERCASE magazine (Issue #8, out in Jan/Feb 2011)."
If you've not seen UPPERCASE, and their beautiful magazine, I recommend you take a look.
Photographs from University of Illinois "Kite Derby Day," 1957 via butdoesitfloat.com
