Hasta La Ideas

From this simple and effective design of the late 1940s and early 1950s to the horrors of today. {via Monoscope}

Burroughs Adding Machine, 1911. (Kind of glad I don’t have to use it to figure out my taxes!)

…the poster design and illustration of Herbert Leupin (c 1950s).

Here’s what I was working on today: a special insert for issue #4, a poster-sized pull-out calendar featuring a collection of perpetual calendars. (16.75″ x 21.75″) Thanks to Sarah Cook for photographing her collection.

If you’ve been thinking of subscribing, now’s the time: the winter issue is in production at the printer and will be shipping in a few weeks. You’ll get yours more quickly as part of the big subscription mailout. (Or you can start with issue 3, which we will mail asap, and the winter issue will follow in a few weeks with the big mailout.)

Thank you for all your orders this past week! The year is off to an amazing start.

Camilla Engman‘s upcoming book (at the printer, available for preorder!) is part of The Suitcase Series. This series presents in glorious detail the lives of artists and designers from around the world. Small and intimate, each book contains a special treasure: in this edition we have included a glassine envelope of postcards with which you can create a Camilla-inspired collage. You’ll also find a booklet of the adventures of Morran, the little Swedish dog with a big imagination. The pre-orders and first few hundred books sold will also include a two-colour art print. Each book in The Suitcase Series is a precious souvenir of a creative journey shared between the artist and you, the reader.

In addition to these goodies, I’ve also designed a luggage tag/bookmark:

Here are some of my inspiration images for the tag:

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