there are many sites that deal in type vernacular, such as the canadian villatype to which i have been an irregular contributor over the years, but this particular one called simply: vernacular typography is a really good example of its kind, good find… (via joachim baan)
i came across a wonderful piece of fancy interactive print dating back to 1968 this week: a multilayered how it works guide that employs, fold-outs, tracing paper overlays and typical sixties icons to explain the mysterious (and now defunct) bank cheque, the bank itself is of course also now defunct…
this particular piece (design uncredited) brings to mind two other classic pieces of print: firstly in terms of style the original versions of marshall mcluhans’ seminal books and secondly, in terms of content and approach, piet zwarts’ often quoted het boek van ptt
the whole past print blog is worth a look by the way, plenty of ‘offline’ nostalgia for those in need…
(via mister ‘uwe’)
some pretty strange ‘archive’ animated gifs going on over at the flux machine (via ‘mike hambleton’)
plenty of ‘mouse over’ silliness on the new webshopdancing tumblr… courtesy of inventor ‘wilbert leering’, i couldn’t resist the urge to take part…