A La Cart...

 This Flickr page has an incredible selection of vintage grocery store and signage illustration.
To see the everyday shopping cart transformed into art click here.

Modern Veneers...

A cool project of alluring and mysterious veneers by designers Robert G. Achtel and Jens Bambauer (aka, Geebird and Bamby) . ' The New World- 'revisits anonymous places of the 20th Century'.  See more of these imagined facades and read about the philosophy behind the project here .

What's Your Type...

Urban lettering of all varieties, including: graffiti,  Italian, French, Japanese, neon, gold, architectural, and one of my favorites- storefront, have all been categorized and can be found on the Vernacular Typography site.

New Balls Please...

Sliced, lobbed, drilled, smashed, chopped, spun, dropped, volleyed, and crushed, tennis balls take a beating. Here are some vintage ball can and box graphics from tennis' past. You can see more tennis cans here. To view some tennis related art click here.

Take-Off...

I dug out these airline graphics from the bottom of a flat file drawer. Could this decal for Mohawk Jets be the work of the creative team at Sterling Cooper Draper Price?? While they may not have TWA as a client they at least landed the smaller Mohawk Airlines account last week- thanks to Roger. Here's a Mohawk magazine ad from the 60's.

Tin Type...

A beautiful selection of Swiss typewriter ribbon tins can be found here.

7-10 Split...

A few vintage embroidered bowling badges I came across recently. Here's a unique approach to bowling where every ball is sure to hit something... eventually.

Fourth Floor- Script and Logos...

Logos with character! A beautiful selection of old hand lettered department store logos can be found here. Here's one I found on a coffee mug a few years ago.