Christian Annyas pulled together this great set of Beer Stamps from the Smithsonian’s website. Beer Stamps were the manner in which the government taxed the alcohol. They sold these stamps, which would then need to be affixed to kegs and bottles at the time of manufacture. It’s amazing to see how detailed the engravings were considering their size.
With every passing generation, the advice we give to the youth of our society changes. Chacho Puebla started to wonder what kind of advice he wished he had received and what he’ll eventually tell his kids about life in these modern times. Using his great-aunt as a stand-in for his grandmother, he produced this set.
In a great oversight on our part, we have never featured the work of Ty Wilkins. I just ran across this poster he did for a design lecture he did at UNT here in Texas in October, and it’s a good reason to also show some other stuff he’s done. I’m particularly fond of his work for Target, which you can see after the jump.
With Steve Jobs’ passing, a lot of attention has been given to his role in the development of the modern computer industry, but one that is often overlooked is that of Susan Kare. The Public Library of Science has a fantastic writeup on her work of designing Macintosh’s graphic interface elements and the inspiration that led to them. It’s a great Sunday afternoon read.
Anthology has a holiday gift guide that they asked me to submit ideas for. You can see my selection here, but I’d recommend checking out the entire magazine. It’s really well designed, and has some great gift selections from a bunch of other cool folks.
You thought your name was bad.
History Class: 50 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin manned the very first flight to put a human in space.
Apparently all famous men must own a motorcycle.
High speed solutions result in endless growth.
Really nice post about us from the lovely and talented duo known as Eight Hour Day.
This is the exact kind of creepy note card that needs to be posted at 3 am.
Make some noise for the new Beastie Boy’s Track
New show up at NSAG!
I love spandex, and the new Destroyer music video.
A ton of people have been moving across the U.S. from one place to another. Did your county lose or gain folks?
NASA has a train for Space Shuttle stuff, and its basically a massive slow moving bomb.
I’m not sure what the concepts were, but these stock photos are unusable.
Amazing photos, before we had Instagram
Moonwalking is cool and all, but I want to Space Walk.
Don’t park in these spaces. TKO Advertising will tow you away in hilarious fashion.
This may very well be the coolest Space Shuttle launch photograph ever taken.
See what happened at the Fader Fort over SXSW, starring Will Bryant.
History Class: remembering the Triangle Fire.
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