This week’s bookshelf find I borrowed from the lovely blog The Silver Lining. These images are from a 1923 french geometry primer for kids, Géométrie. To oogle more of these beauties visit the flickr set here.
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Bookshelf Bonanza: Géométrie
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, tagged 1920's graphics, Géométrie, The Silver Lining on September 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Bookshelf Bonanza: Matter
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, mid-century mmm..., tagged 1960's, airhouses, Life Science Library, matter, Mid-Century, the elements on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Life Science Library is an amazing series for those interested in how/why stuff works and the infinite coolness of how 1963 explains it. This one is on matter. All sorts. These are some of the pretty pictures. For the how/why I’m afraid you’ll have to hunt it down yourself. The Gravity of a drink. [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: Leisure Living
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, built modern, mid-century mmm..., tagged architecture, cabin, deisgn, Grain Edit, Mid-Century, Second Homes for Leisure Living, teahouse, vacation home on July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy Wednesday! Today, I am in a rush to get up to my studio and am therefore going to lean on my favorite go-to graphic gurus, grain edit, for the book pic of the week. Second Homes For Leisure Living presented by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association is a booklet that I sadly don’t own [...]
Audio Visuals
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, mid-century mmm..., tagged 1960's, design, graphics, green, Mid-Century, orange, record sleeves, red on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I went hunting through my bookshelf this morning to find today’s Bookshelf Bonanza, I came across these beauties. I bought them at a flea market last year, put them between two books to keep them flat, and then promptly forgot about them. I was very ‘wahoo’ when I found them all tucked in there. [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: Rocks and Minerals
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, mid-century mmm..., tagged 1950's, design, Golden Press, illustration, Mid-Century, Rocks and Minerals on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Illustrated by Raymond Perlman, this 1957 Golden Press gem about, well, gems is pocket book perfection. More Mid-Century bling than you can shake a stick at.
Bookshelf Bonanza: Houseboat
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, tagged 1970's, Ben Dennis, Betsy Case, housboat on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of my favorite books in my collection. Not because it’s the prettiest, but because of what it represents. Houseboat, written by Ben Dennis & Betsy Case in 1977, is about people choosing to make life an adventure. As it should be. I love the idea of living on water, being as close [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: All About Lawns
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, mid-century mmm..., tagged 60's, Better Gardening, graphic design, lawns, Leland Publishing, Mid-Century, Robert A. Fattori on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weeks’ bookshelf offering is Book 1 of a Leland Publishing Co. 16 book series on gardening titled, ‘John Bradshaw’s Complete Guide to Better Gardening: All About Lawns’. Published in 1961 this volume dishes up all sorts of dated tidbits on how to maintain a heavy fertilizer inspired yardscape that would make even the Jones’ [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: Outdoor Safety and Survival
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, oh canada, tagged design, Outdoor safety & survival on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This time it’s the Province of British Columbia bringing you a handsome guide on how to make it in the wild. First published in 1976, this illustrated gem packs a powerful punch of information for those who wish to get back to the (far out) land. My favorite is “Navigating by dead reckoning”. Can’t wait [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: Native Trees of Canada
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, mid-century mmm..., oh canada, tagged 1960's, Bing-Lin Wong, graphic design, illustrations, Iris Gott, Native trees of Canada on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It looks like I have a bit of a tree theme happening here this week. Not a bad thing I think. This book, put out by the Canadian Department of the Environment in 1969, is a graphic wonderland. I could easily see some of these as wallpapers or stationary. The graphic design, layout, and production [...]
Bookshelf Bonanza: 10 Secrets to Bowling
Posted in bookshelf bonanza, tagged Anthony Ravielli, bowling, Don Carter on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have always loved bowling. I have never really been good at it, but that doesn’t seem to keep me from adoring this age old past time. Whether it’s 5 pin Canadian or 10 pin classic, there’s something about the tiny destruction that is caused at the other end of the lane that makes me [...]
