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Laura is selling a variety of prints on society6 for very reasonable prices and shipping is free until Sunday.

This starling wants to live on your wall. Won’t you give him a home?

David Croy

Click on these to see the detail. Do it.

Ad for Kosca pens, Italy 1951.

From the Epoca archives

Kalmine pain reliever ad, Italy 1951.

“against neuralgia(?), headaches, colds, flu, toothaches”

From the Epoca archives.

Colin M. Ford’s snapshot of the curtain at Museum of the Moving Image. It was designed by Cindy Sirko and reflects the building’s architectural elements. It is also great.

Visit Palestine
“Issued by Tourist Development Assn. of Palestine”
“Printed in Palestine” (ca. 1939)
(via Boston Public Library)

Badger Spine is a font by Holly Dennis created in FontStruct, which means it’s made of modular “bricks” in basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and diagonals. Really. Even ignoring that incredible fact, it’s a beautiful design inspired by some of nature’s own building blocks.

Handpainted billboard in Tel Aviv, Isreal (2008)
via Fontef Photolog

“Le Roi Soleil, Louis XIV” (1997)
By Sandra Serra with PC Paintbrush, Windows 3.11

Archery is for Everyone
Ben Pearson ad in Outdoor Life, Dec. 1956
Via I Am A Friend Of The Squirrels

Archery is for Everyone
Ben Pearson ad in Outdoor Life, Dec. 1956
Via I Am A Friend Of The Squirrels

Carrying A Heavy Rabbit
illustration from the Girl Scout Handbook, 1947 (via IAAFOTS)

Victor L. Chandler trade card (Collection of Jonathan Bulkley) (via Sheaff : ephemera)

Laura:

– via & by Scott Campbell

“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse  it.”

love this illustration SO much! (Actually everything that is connected to the original Version of Willy Wonka.)

Laura:

– via & by Scott Campbell

“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.”

love this illustration SO much!
(Actually everything that is connected to the original Version of Willy Wonka.)

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