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No Meat Balls but Spaghetti Grafica
Ministero della Grafica (Ministry for the Graphics) proudly presents "Spaghetti Grafica", a brand new compendium of some of the best examples of italian graphic design (corporate identity, typography, exhibition design, motion graphics, self promotion...) that started as a public exhibition and turned into a book that is distributed worldwide and published by DeAgostini.
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Uppercase goes Old School
UPPERCASE gallery, books & papergoods is located in the Art Central building in downtown Calgary and is pure candy for the eyes. Visit their site for old style magnetics, anatomic frogs and various paper goods.
And this fall, UPPERCASE is going old
school. The "Old School" theme celebrates the aesthetics of twentieth
century education through an art exhibition and companion book, as well
as curated objects. It is inspired by vintage flash cards, old desks,
biology class, science fairs, crayons, card catalogs, textbooks, class
photos, teachers, yearbooks, lunchboxes, gym class, maps, lockers,
report cards, film strips, recess, spelling, chalk... and the list goes
on!
"I Will not tell lies", 10×10 fine art giclee print of a Polaroid
Random
History in HD:
“And that rhymes with “P” and that stands for pool!”
Shorpy (
"The 100-year-old photo blog") is a great blog featuring selected historical photographs in large format:
Georgetown
Extreme Makeovers part 1
These are two views of 6014 12th Ave South. One was taken in early 2006 before we took over our current studios. The other was taken last week.
Georgetown
1930s view of Georgetown
It's always fun to look back at what was here before us. The
Belle & Wissell studio of today occupies the same space as Manzo the Tailor (first photo below) in the Julius Horton Building. You can also see a small bit of the Julius Horton House next door. Julius' brother Dexter Horton's bank is around the corner (now Georgetown Records and Fantagraphics Books).
The Horton House, and many other buildings in these photos were removed when Interstate 5 and entrance-ramps were added to the neighborhood in the 50s. Bummer.
These photos were taken as part of the
WPA (Works Progress Administration), attributed to the New Deal in the mid to late 1930s. Learn more about Georgetown history at
historylink.org
