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Vintage designs

Love looking at the past’s best designs, this page will give you the best of vintage designs.

September 26, 2008
The beauty of old maps
The beauty of old maps

We can has Google Earth! Via Boston Public Library. I have to admit it: Google Earth is pretty cool and Google Maps quite useful, but none of them are close to be as beautiful as old hand-drawn maps. Since my childhood I’ve always been fascinated by old earth globes, vintage maps or navigation maps, following […]

May 17, 2008
Inhabitat according to Antti Lovag
Inhabitat according to Antti Lovag

Organic is the first word that came to my mind the first time I saw the Bubble house. Actually that’s a good thing, because one of the goals of Antti Lovag when conceiving his houses was precisely to be in adequation with nature. Antti Lovag is a strange mix between a jewish russian father and […]

April 24, 2008
Commercials that are so bad that they’re good
Commercials that are so bad that they’re good

The following bad commercials are what saves me when I feel down. I just watch a few of those and I immediately feel better. Bad design, shitty actors, wacky typefaces, everything is so bad in it that it just makes you feel good about yourself. Enjoy! The best of all, an old polish ad that […]

September 15, 2007
Saturday vintage: what should our life be like?
Saturday vintage: what should our life be like?

As a Jules Vernes lover, I am a great fan of these kind of prints showing the man of 1910 what life in the year 2000 would be like. It would of course be interesting to see what people of the twenty-second century will think of our actual projects of the future. You can see […]