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November 7, 2009

Architecture: Ford Times, Nov 1959

"Editor's note: As backgrounds for the 1960 Fords, we chose ten wonderful, but unavailable, sites in America's most spectacular scenery, much of which is in national parks and monuments. We then asked R. A. Hermes, graduate architect, to design houses that would take full advantage of each site, against renderings of them by Charles Harper, we photo composed the new models. On the cover you saw a spherical plastic house which would achieve the ultimate in prefabrication since it has no footings or foundation. The tree house on the inside front cover, designed for Sequoia National Park, could be assembled on the ground, then hoisted like a dough nut up a sapling. There are eight other dream houses, each a setting for cars that are not just a dream= "A Wonderful New World of Fords" described in detail on these pages." Ford Times, Nov 1959

This text/image/great set is found at David at The Klockarp Institute's Flickr. He's just swell, go see!
Via butdoesitfloat.com.
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November 6, 2009

Illustration: Thanks For Waiting...

By Christer Themptander
Via Gåsen
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Fetish: Barbaric Erotica

Could this be a fetish?
From Radioactive Lingerie
NSFW!
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Illustration/Art: Flora Chang

Flora Chang's blog - Happy Doodle Land - and Flickr (don't miss the Alphabet Animals)
Via Drawn!
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November 5, 2009

Animation: Yonder

Yonder from Emilia on Vimeo.

Yonder: A film by Emilia Forstreuter
Via Coudal Partners
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Art: Léon Spilliaert

All Things Amazing: Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
"...was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist." (read more at Wikipedia)
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November 3, 2009

Book Covers: Uruguayan Vintage

Flickr: sección áurea: portadas de libros uruguayos (60's y 70's)
Via El Burlador
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Children's Books: Dieren prentenboek

Illustrations by Reijer (Reyer) Stolk, 1945

Dieren prentenboek : silhouetten / Reyer Stolk
Via BibliOdyssey
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Illustration/Art: Lou Loeber

Art by Lou Loeber, 1927

Gouden vlinders / versjes door S. Franke ; plaatjes van Lou Loeber
Via BibliOdyssey

Lou Loeber
(b Amsterdam, 3 May 1894; d Blaricum, 1 Feb 1983). Dutch painter. She trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam (1915-18). She discovered Cubism, especially that of Albert Gleizes, the work of De Stijl and of Le Corbusier in 1919. During 1920-21 the form in her work became more rigid and the colour more sober. She came into contact with works by Piet Mondrian in the Salomon Bernard Slijper (1884-1971) collection (now at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague), in particular Evolution (1910-11) and Red Windmill (1910). In 1927 she travelled to the Bauhaus at Dessau and to Berlin. She favoured subjects taken from industry and technology and stylized reality using the diagonal, as well as the horizontal and vertical line. A link with visible reality was maintained, however. (Answers.com)
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