Vintage Fabric

Loads of vintage fabric and inspiring design from Kmel. Also worth checking out the Tammis Keefe textiles pool

Alternative Housing

Alternative housing from around the world. I particularly like the mid-century british pictures (via materialicious).

Vintage Navy Film strips

Stills from World War II US Navy educational films (via Doug Wilson)

The Pelican Project

I can never get enough of Penguin and Pelican covers. This is a great online resource (via Ace Jet 170)

Children’s books from the early soviet era

I like the Revolution and Industry section (via Shelf Appeal)

Mike Perry

Fantastic work by Mike Perry author of Hand Job

Igrejinha and Oscar and the sky

I’ve been following the adventures of Craig from Flip Flop Flying. I love the photographs of churches in Brazil.

Polish matchbox labels from the 1960’s

Erik Nitsche

Thanks to collectors Derrick Schultz and Katie Varrati for sharing their Erik Nitsche collection on Flickr. Stunning.

Prom Night Fist Fight

Love the name and the images.

Old school party flyers

So much work and passion have gone into these. You get the impression that whoever made them also loved the music.

London Transport Museum online poster collection

The Museum has reopened and on the new website you can now explore over 5,000 posters.

The Polaroid Kidd

I particularly like Boys and Girls of the Modern Railways. (Via Fine Little Day).

Animation Backgrounds

A blog dedicated to vintage animation backgrounds - read the introduction to understand how Rob Richards has worked to bring these images alive. (Via Drawn).

MWM Graphics

The Vectorfunk series are beautiful, vibrant and loud.

• Illuminating York

These pre-fab homes in York may soon be up for demolition to make way for modern housing. Built in 1975/76 the 100 buildings are known as ‘Discus Bungalows’. The wide structures are hard to photograph but I wanted to capture the unusual buildings before they are gone. I think they are lovely and particularly like the individual colours and open communal gardens.

• Discus Bungalow redevelopment takes a step closer from City of York Council
• Richard Heep’s Pre-fab Photos
• PREFABS: Factory homes for post-War England from English Heritage
• Palaces for the People: Prefabs in Post-war Britain the book that appears to be very hard to get hold of - I’m still trying.

My Grandparent’s moved their family to East Kilbride when my Grandfather got a job in the new town. They stayed there after retirement and I have happy memories of visiting them throughout the 1980s. Since becoming interested in architecture and design of the 50s and 60s the town has again caught my attention and more than ever I think it’s a very special place.

Thank you Anne at I like for letting us know that this month is East Kilbride’s 60th birthday.

Ruins Safaris

An urban exploration photo set from Ruin Tourist on Flickr. I particularly like the empty kodak building and photographs found there.

Arcade Fire

Interactive music video for Neon Bible (via notcot.org). Arcade Fire can do no wrong.

Yokoespen

Yokoespen’s photo set - if it was a book I would buy it.

Cut out science illustrations

Not immune to colors by Airform Archives. A series of photos of the top scientists circa 1968 studying the immune system with fantastic cut out paper backgrounds.

Play-doh

Another great Sony Bravia advert. It took three weeks to make this stop-motion animation and 2.4 tonnes of plasticine.

Basil Spence

Slideshow of photographs from the Basil Spence Archive on wallpaper.com (via Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy). I knew nothing of Basil Spence until I found some of my Dad’s old architecture photos. There is a flickr group dedicated to the architect too.