January 2012
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The Book of Rabbit Stories, 1924
According to website 50 Watts, Sigmund Freud’s eccentric niece Martha illustrated a series of children’s books in the early twentieth century (under the pseudonym Tom Seidmann-Freud, or “Tom”). They are trippy and amazing — click here to see more.
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Wolfmother Infographic
Awesome infographic about why the modern dog looks the way it does, made by the collective Always With Honor. I’m kind of obsessed with infographics right now, and I’m also kind of obsessed with Always With Honor’s illustrations.
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Speaking of Dioramas...
From Richard Barnes’ Dioramas in Transition series. There’s something so ridiculous about seeing posed, stuffed animals and workers vacuuming (is that a vacuum?) around them as though it is the most common thing in the world.
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Appetite for Design
Eat Me: Appetite for Design is a very cool, wafer-covered book about food-related design by Victionary.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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bembo's zoo
Just found a really cool designer named Roberto de Cumptich. He has an amazing body of type projects and book covers. Look at this polar bear:
One of his projects, Bembo’s Zoo, is online in flash and involves animals that Cumptich created out of typography. Here is a koala.
Go here to see Bembo’s Zoo online. The project is also a children’s book. This would be such a cute...
September 2011
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i ♥ richard brautigan.
Including his poetry, which I know a lot of people think is terrible. This is one of my favorites:
MY NOSE IS GROWING OLD
Yup. A long lazy September look in the mirror say it’s true.
I’m 31 and my nose is growing old.
It starts about 1/2 an inch below the bridge and strolls geriatrically down for another inch or so: stopping.
Fortunately, the rest of the nose is comparatively ...
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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