Ace Jet 170

Moon + Antenna

I was watching the moon this morning as I drove into work
(quite safely thanks to few cars + speed bumps).

10

 

It's that time again when lovely stuff appears that you should be buying for someone special in your life but the temptation to keep it for yourself is almost over powering. First up: Typotheque's Limited Edition 2010 Diary.

Invincible

I was chatting this old chap last week, on his stall of miscellaneous memorabilia. Mostly military stuff, which is one thing I'm not really into...unless it happens to be designed in an interesting way, like that Bomber Command book from way back. He had a couple of random postcards with interesting type on them that he sold me for next to nothing, and while I was kneeling down to tuck them into my bag I spotted this old cigar box hidden under his table. Now I'm a sucker for a cigar box so was very pleased that he agreed to sell it to me.

  

There's many to choose from but I think my favourite rendering of the brand name is really the one on the pattern-edges tape that runs around the edges, but you are kind of spoilt for choice.

   

Incidentally, if anyone's commented lately: firstly, thanks! and secondly, my apologies for taking my time publishing them. I've had a pile of rubbish coming through the related email address so I switched it off for a while.

Bum Tree

Sadly too late for David's competition but our boys were delighted to discover this at Castle Ward this weekend. (An Arse Chestnut?).

Catch

We just had a meeting there, about stuff and things. Can't really say. But in the thick of it, this old thing came up. It's that laugh at the end.

"Every child is an artist...", Pablo Picasso

...worryingly, mine's David Shrigley.

(Inspired by an Airey Tweet)

Bad Idea

Call me an old stick-in-the-mud but for me (perhaps with this exception) a Swiss Army Knife that is anything other than red is just a knife no matter who's designed it.

The Fallen

It's around this time of year that my wife charges me with the task of clearing all the dead stuff out of the greenhouse. There's plenty of it. Stuff that, over the course of the growing season, has been snipped or knocked off, or has just dropped as it ends it's natural life. Withered, shriveled and decaying, it's all so much more interesting than when it was alive and thriving.

 

 

Irre-wristible?

  

Well actually, I'm not sure about these but they are strangely attractive.

Poster4Tomorrow

"...an open competition inviting the global creative community to create posters to draw attention to, and take action against, the repression of freedom of expression. It's organized by Associazione Culturale GoodDesign together with HM Studio and 4tomorrow. Freedom of expression is a right that the Western world takes for granted. But in many countries, such as Iran, innocent people are persecuted and imprisoned daily due to their pleas for democracy and freedom of the press or for exposing human rights abuses...

"...we're proud to be endorsed by Reporters sans Frontieres, the non-profit organisation that fights for freedom of press across the world, and supported by a jury to select the posters that includes: Marjane Satrapi, the author and filmmaker of Persepolis; prominent Iranian graphic designers Reza Abedini and Saed Meshki; internationally renowned graphic designers Alain Le Quernec, Pierre Bernard and Woody Pirtle; and Tommaso Minnetti and Pasquale Volpe, founders of the world’s largest social communication project Good50x70."

Find out more here.