Norman Hetherington’s copyright registration application for Mr Squiggle.
I really have no idea why I posted this.
(National Archives of Australia)
Nicely customised comments form at the Panic Inc. corporate blog. Different enough from the usual Wordpress comments form you see everywhere on the web, but with all the normal elements in place. Cute and idiosyncratic while maintaining usability.
It amazes me that the designers of the nineteenth century, armed with little more than their typographic inventiveness, and without the aid of automated data manipulation devices, were able to corral ever-increasing masses of information into something comprehensible. (Think of railway timetables, for instance, or even newspapers.)
This 1858 document, entitled Tableau de L’Histoire Universelle, attempts the modest task of drawing a family tree of the entire human race.
I can’t speak as to the accuracy of the genealogy, but as an infographic it’s freakin’ awesome.
(Also, I’d be thrilled if anyone could point me to a font that matches the handwritten type in the poster, particularly the italics.)
(peacay)
Were I blessed with the good fortune of owning this Victorian eyePod, I’d want to be listening to music befitting its fine craftsmanship.
(Doctor Grymm, via New Scientist)
A screenshot of Grackle68k, a Twitter client for Mac System 6 through to Mac OS 9. I bet this will really annoy the dude I posted about in September who went back to System 7 precisely to escape this kind of distraction.
(retards.org, via Minimal Mac)
Beautiful wood engravings from a 1947 French edition of Poe’s Fall of the house of Usher.
Bizarro collagey awesomeness by Melbourne artist Al Ouchtomsky.
(al ouchtomsky, via A Journey Around My Skull)
Interior of Kings Theatre, Bondi Beach in the 1930s. Part of a new batch of images just uploaded to the State Library of New South Wales Flickr account.
(State Library of New South Wales)
From The East London Theatre Archive, a collection of nearly 15,000 playbills, programmes, press cuttings and photographs. Great resource for a Victorian typography enthusiast like myself.
(The East London Theatre Archive, via The Cat’s Meat Shop)
When Tom Baker abstained from participating in Doctor Who’s twentieth anniversary episode, ‘The Five Doctors’, he was, for the purposes of a promotional photoshoot, replaced with a wax dummy. Now I’m wondering if he shouldn’t have been replaced with one of these adorable nesting dolls.
I love that the Hartnell and Troughton dolls are in monochrome.
(sweet is the wind, via lizbt)
This was the first major LEGO™ set I owned. Clearly I will never achieve my dream of being the first author to include it on one of their book covers. Damn you, Jan Kraśko. Damn you to space.
Either I used to own this book, or the cover artist has access to my childhood nightmares.
Striking design by Elaine Lustig. Love the bold colours and the slight wonkiness of the shape at the bottom.
Lovely “web 2.0” colour scheme, which I’m certain to steal outright for a project down the track.
(memake)
