Seen at an auction, an Electrolux Users Manual, the front and back cover seen here.
Nothing sucks like Electrolux.
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Tag Archives: design
These Suds Ain’t Duds
This last Saturday was laundry day at the North Star Auction in Mandan, North Dakota.
Also, back in the day, laundry soap and dish soap were often the same soap.
Check out the sweet package art.
Woe Is Me
Walt Kuhn for Life humor magazine, December 13, 1906
Dance with a Witch in the Moonlight
One of the finest Halloween covers in American magazine history.
Art by the brilliant Earl Oliver Hurst.
This Week in Ephemera
This is a score! The entire 1916 year of McCall’s magazine and in beautiful condition, especially considering these twelve issues are over a hundred years old.
Wisdom
Whisper admonished me for failing to reach a zen state because I stress about things I should no longer care about.
“If you give somebody a perfectly grilled steak and they take it and slather shampoo and gravel all over it and then complain that it isn’t any good, that’s on them, not you. Meow.”
Whisper is wise.
Bill Boley was a madman.
Fresh from an antique store in Bismarck, a 1952 book on how to make different typefaces by hand. Thank God for computers (on the 8th day).
Bodoni the old-old-old-school way. I bodon’t think so.
Store display poster for M•A•C and Star Trek — Brilliant!
They made it so.
what a croc
In Vogue.
They’re so not cool that they’re cool… to the point of not being cool again… which makes them cool again… making people realize they’re not cool… which isn’t just cool… it’s tres cool… so very not cool.
So… Are you pro-Crocs or no-Crocs?
Beauty is in the eye of the beh… AHHHHHHH!
I saw this floor display for Mission Athletic Care in our local Lowe’s Home Improvement store and I can’t decide if this assembled quirk is a design fail or design win.
Eye caramba!
Let’s call it a fawin.
Sometimes my contact lenses feel like this.