Wilhelmina Cycle & Co. Ltd. Zeist-Holland. rijwielen 1897-1898 Bezoekt onze Viskwekerijen – Koninklijke Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij (Arnhem) – 1950-1975 Drinkt èchte Ranja en Rojo 1925-1950 “In 1889, the light bulb factory Goosens, Pope & Co. was founded in Venlo. The driving force behind the enterprise was the English engineer Frederic Pope. In 1920, Philips acquired a …
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Tiny Business Card Calendar [Calendars]
Weighting in at the size of a business card, the tiny Thumb Calendar makes it possible to keep a calendar on you at all times. The Thumb Calendar is two sided and in order to use it, you must cover the dates that are not directly below the month header with your thumbs. The designer …
Moby Dick
Design by Vladimir Zimakov The Aesthetic Poetic’s Douglas Haddow brought his interview with designer and illustrator Vladimir Zimakov to my attention. Check it out to see some more of Zimakov’s work and read about his influences (Paula Rego! Yesss!!); his Moby Dick cover is below. There’s more great work at his site. Moby Dick
Lay-It-Out
Last time I moved I threw out my back repositioning Grandma’s china cabinet for the 10th time. My latest (and hopefully last) moving experience was a dream because of the Lay-It-Out furniture templates. These unique life-sized paper furniture templates are the shape of your bed, sofa, tables, chairs, rugs, billiard table. After trimming them to …
Olive sizes
Mark Hurst at Good Experience wonders today about the words used to classify olive oil — pure, virgin, and extra virgin: “I mean, what’s the difference between ‘virgin’ and ‘extra virgin’ in any other context?” Mark’s conclusion: “Olive oil suffers from name inflation.” Which reminded me of the strange array of words used to size …
Dick on Kipple
Quote: There’s the First Law of Kipple… ‘Kipple drives out nonkipple.’ …Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake …
The H.O.F. Holiday Gift Goad (Or, Pay Attention, You Cheap Bastards)
At a loss for a gift this holiday season? Screwing over friends and family and buying crap just for yourself? Bad with your money in general and need to splurge on something pointless to help bloat your credit card bills? Dirt poor and reckless? We could care less what your situation is, really. We just …
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War is over! If you want it
Powerful and appropriate, 38 years later. Other formats to blog or print:Please right-click links and select “Save Link/Target As” 400 pixel wide jpeg 450 pixel wide jpeg 500 pixel wide jpeg original jpeg full-size PDF for printing Source: imaginepeace.com War is over! If you want it
The duty of the popular economist is to encourage audiences to move beyond simple good-bad stories and think in terms of opportunity costs and unintended consequences. Marginal Revolution: Argument by omission
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