Amazing photography by Elias Tahan
Not a bad shot in here. Great work.
The art of French Pharmaceutical Advertising
I recently picked up a copy of Baseline magazine (an international typography magazine) and saw these great images. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remedies for various real and imagined physical and psychological maladies were routinely hawked using miracle claims. By the early twenties though, the big drug companies started waging war with the phonies and the result was greater governmental scrutiny. Even so, I love the magical nature of these ad campaigns.
Bartolomé Graziana
Check out Bartolomé Graziana presented in a blog format. There’s some lovely posters on there, including this one above.
Vanishing America
For my birthday I was given a great book called Vanishing America. (Thanks Karl and Tara Stillner!) The book is all about imagery, signage and architecture from America’s yesteryear. Thanks to a really cool plugin called Poladroid, I was able to take some pictures of a few pages of the book and make them look like old Polaroid images.
Old Seattle motels
There are several “vintage” motels along Highway 99 in Seattle. I decided to pull over and take a few pictures but there are dozens more and I’ll try to take more over the coming year. I like old motels. Photographing them. Not staying in them.
Great design for a great message
Nice job red cross:
Serious coffee art
I was working at El Diablo coffee in my beloved Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle and couldn’t help but notice how seriously they take that devil/diablo stuff. Pretty cool. Serious coffee art.
Georgetown is growing up!
I was getting a coffee in the Seattle warehouse suburb of Georgetown today. Saw that a new Via Tribunali pizza joint is opening down here. And, some fancy new apartments going up. I suspect people who bought property 5 years ago in this old warehouse district are going to be very happy as this neighborhood grows up to be Seattle’s next hip place to hang out.
I thought this postcard was funny…
CafePress has acquired Imagekind!
It was in July 2006 when we launched Imagekind to the world for the first time. Here we are two years later and we are pleased to announce that the leading print-on-demand company has purchased the company. CafePress is a Sequoia backed company that needs no introduction. In our first meeting with co-founder and CEO Fred Durham we immediately understood this team to be smart, rational, hard-working and prudent decision makers. We are very, very lucky to be a part of this family. Congratulations to the whole Imagekind team who worked so hard to get us here. Kevin Saliba (CEO), Emanuel Bettelheim (CTO), Aleks Davidovich (GM, Ops) and all the others I’m not listing here by name…thank you so much.
I find this funny
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Rainbows
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Vanishing America
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Friends from Monaco
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Cadillac
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Old stamps
