here’s a nice little idea: a series of comped images: amsterdam at the end of the second world war and today superimposed together, which i find fascinating to look at, the execution isn’t terribly good but it works, in fact the first image directly here below is actually the exact view from my office window here on the vijzelstraat… strange to see it like this
(spotted via ‘yacco vijn’ on fb)
…beaches looked very different, a set of vintage pics providing insight into beach life over 100 years ago, that can’t have been much fun doing the crawl in a suit…
and while we’re on the subject of vintage photography, here’s a set of personal polaroids portraying the life of basquiat in the late eighties… but there’s really nothing very remarkable to see, the beach set is more fun…
why not disable yer pop-up blocker and pong away on your browser… unless you’ve got something better to do?
(link via mister ‘uwe’)
well it made me smile, sorry no idea what the credits are for this one but it does look a lot like the ‘modern toss’ style… (thanks to ‘john d’)
nice collection of old porsche adverts, which also provide a history of graphic styles from the past four decades
(via ‘michiel schuurman’ on FB)