Janice of Papier Valise stopped by this morning with some vintage label treats! She's working on a paper project that will be published in the Fall issue. Be sure to visit her online shop for an amazing assortment of creative provisions.
Here's a find from a used bookstore. It was $10 and is apparently signed by the author, published in 1964 and reprinted in 1971.
Can you believe I found this gem in the back alley? Direct from 1977!
When Aaron was visiting last month, he brought me these little boxes.
More amazing things unearthed at Full Table.
Insel Verlag books, above, found in an amazing website of epic and curious proportions: Full Table. "It's bigger than you could ever think — just explore — no clues from me," says the site author Dr. Chris Mullen. This is a website experience equivalent to visiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Confusing, confounding, crazy… awesome! I'm posting this on Sunday evening so if you happen to be looking for something to take up the last hours of your weekend, I recommend clicking through Full Table.
See even more on Flickr! My favourite page is below.
One of the curious objects in my collection of things.
I've uploaded high resolution images of the instruction manual for the Royal Quiet DeLuxe (c1956)
(see the complete book in my flickr set of Typewriter Memorabilia)
Design idea outtake.
Something else to play with...
This morning I had some fun hand-setting some vintage letters to be used in one of the magazine's upcoming articles. We're still accepting submissions for The Lost Art of The End: click here for more details.
I quite like having a tumblr account (I call it my scrapbook)—it is easy to simply add images into the visual log without much effort. Kind of addictive, actually! The images in my tumblr are mainly ones that have influenced the visual direction of UPPERCASE magazine. Colour, pattern, composition, typography, ephemera, photography, illustration, visual motifs, vintage aesthetics...
Dots, balloons, bubbles are a recurring graphic element in issue one and so you will see lots of them in my tumblr. I love the stark, graphic simplicity of these particular images from the Life archive (above) and so I referenced them for a spread in the magazine. I'm certainly not "America's Next Top Model" but it was fun to create these simple photographs.
I found this book many years ago in a used bookshop in Montreal. I've always been fond of the classic red-bordered label and this book cover is particularly beautiful. The labels became an inspiration for a recurring design motif in the magazine.
It's going to be a BUSY week! The stitch show comes down today and preparation for the Treehouse show begins, the Jen11 book is shipping, there's a huge Eclectonote order to fulfill... not to mention a First Thursday and the release of issue one of UPPERCASE's magazine! {this image is from my Tumblr Scrapbook, via Glen Mullaly's photostream}
I could get lost in the vintage goodness you can find on Flickr. Here are some images from Pantufla's sets.
Cover by Christy Batta
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