DIY Dad Buys a Derelict Fixer-Upper, Restores the Forgotten 1920s General Store He Finds Inside It

There’s the kind of DIY Dad who likes to spruce up the garden shed. Then there’s the kind of DIY Dad who buys a condemned property and rebuilds it, complete with a fully-restored, fully-stocked general store “museum” from a bygone era. That’s what this Dad did, making his son very proud– so proud, that luckily for…

Here’s an Instagram Account dedicated to finding Forgotten French Ghost Signs

Instagram has become one of my favourite resources, probably because I’ve trained my digital eye to know exactly what I’m looking for while scrolling endlessly through accounts, allowing me to pinpoint more places on my wanderlust map like a visual mood board of things I love. Make sense? Well anyway, it’s a great travel tool and…

Anonymous Places of the 20th Century

I found some very pretty pictures today. A scrumptious visual mash-up of 20th century art, design, architecture, photography and cinema, allow me to present a series called The New World, by artistic German duo Geebird & Bamby (great names, right?!). Using photorealism and graphic design, they create ‘anonymous’ buildings from what appears to be a…

The Lost Art of Street Typography

I wonder if in the old days, they found their hand-painted typography and artisanal signs as charming as we do today? Maybe they found it a nuisance; all those different fonts competing for attention as you walked down the street. Personally, I’d love nothing more than to time travel down my local high street and see…

Honk if you Love the Subculture of Indian Trucker Art

I‘ve been itching to do something on the marvel that is the subculture of Indian Trucker Art, but I’ve been waiting for just the right reason to do it– and today I found it. Horn Please is a stunning documentary that encapsulates the kaleidoscopic age-old Indian folk art that found its way into the modern-day…

How Batman Obsessively Labelled his Gadgets in the 1960s

If you thought Bruce Wayne was doing anything other than clearly labelling all of his Bat possessions in between his and Robins crime-busting escapades during the 1960s, you’d be very mistaken… Batman had convenient little labels on absolutely everything when he was on television between 1966 and 1968. Even his arch enemies were super meticulous about indicating…

Take a Tour of Typographic Paris

My list of lust-worthy coffee table books seems to be getting a little out of control lately, and it looks like I have yet another one to add to my shopping trolley… When she was 20 years-old, Louise Fili took a trip to Paris where she was first inspired to become the celebrated graphic designer she is today. Armed…

Here, here, an Archive dedicated to the Private Vintage Letterheads of Notorious Names

What would it be like to receive a letter from David Bowie or Nelson Mandela? Thanks to a Tumblr called Letterheady, with an archive of vintage letterheads belonging to various legends, icons and infamous characters through history, we can get a peek into the private world of their writing desks when letters were still king. I…

Typography Lovers, let this Online Boutique Romance You

I just fell head over heels, got swept off my feet, they had me at ‘hello’– all that stuff needed to begin a good ol’ romance. And if like me, you’re a hopeless devotee of typography and old world design, prepare to be wooed. Izola is a New York-based company that has so stylishly and impeccably curated their online boutique with just the…

Let’s Time Travel with Vintage Airline Luggage Labels

The weekend is nearly here, our minds are already traveling somewhere far away, so I thought what better moment than a Friday afternoon than to pour over some vintage travel memorabilia from the 1920s to the 1950s. We’ve already looked at the golden age of travel’s hotel luggage labels, hotel and restaurant matchbooks accumulated from across…