‘The emphasis is on vintage signs but not exclusively. My earliest photographs date from the mid 1980’s. Many of these signs no longer exist’

photo from chumpographica

“A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made…”

De Stijl was art movement advocating pure abstraction and simplicity – form reduced to the rectangle and other geometric shapes, and color to the primary colors, along with black and white

Thesauri Poloniae - The Treasures of Poland

Instructions on how to fold your own envelopes (via MetaFilter)

photo by Justin Ouellette

unusual design gallery

A browsable exhibit of annotated images of prints from 1500 to the present representing human anatomy, both real and imagined

another the5k.org entry

notes on a film by Alexander Sokurov

A growing collection of free high resolution photos and illustrations

a collection of photos and descriptions

.png files of various organisms

Four Centuries of British-American Relations

photo of Earth from space

‘the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms’

galleries of / aurora borealis / from Fairbanks, Alaska