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Links - March 2008

Friday, March 7th, 2008
Vintage Fabric
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Loads of vintage fabric and inspiring design from Kmel. Also worth checking out the Tammis Keefe textiles pool
Alternative Housing
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Alternative housing from around the world. I particularly like the mid-century british pictures (via materialicious).
Vintage Navy Film strips
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Stills from World War II US Navy educational films (via Doug Wilson)
The Pelican Project
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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
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I like the Revolution and Industry section (via Shelf Appeal)
Mike Perry
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Fantastic work by Mike Perry author of Hand Job
Igrejinha and Oscar and the sky
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I’ve been following the adventures of Craig from Flip Flop Flying. I love the photographs of churches in Brazil.

Links - November 2007

Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Erik Nitsche
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Thanks to collectors Derrick Schultz and Katie Varrati for sharing their Erik Nitsche collection on Flickr. Stunning.
Prom Night Fist Fight
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Love the name and the images.
Old school party flyers
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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
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The Museum has reopened and on the new website you can now explore over 5,000 posters.
The Polaroid Kidd
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I particularly like Boys and Girls of the Modern Railways. (Via Fine Little Day).
Animation Backgrounds
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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
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The Vectorfunk series are beautiful, vibrant and loud.

Links - October 2007

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Ruins Safaris
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An urban exploration photo set from Ruin Tourist on Flickr. I particularly like the empty kodak building and photographs found there.
Arcade Fire
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Interactive music video for Neon Bible (via notcot.org). Arcade Fire can do no wrong.
Yokoespen
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Yokoespen’s photo set - if it was a book I would buy it.
Cut out science illustrations
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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
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Another great Sony Bravia advert. It took three weeks to make this stop-motion animation and 2.4 tonnes of plasticine.
Basil Spence
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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.

Animation Links

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

A couple of days in London

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Science Museum sign

Maurice Broomfield’s ‘New Look’ at Industry: photographs from post-war Britain
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At the Science Museum. See all the images on the Maurice Broomfield website (via I like).
Gilbert & George and The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller
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At Tate Modern. Went to see Gilbert & George - Carsten Höller’s slide was a brilliant surprise.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum
So much to take in yet no photography allowed without prior written permission.