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Beautiful tourist map from Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) dating back 1966. I love the bold colors and simple line work. I’m guessing that the illustration inside the red square on the left side is a beer. Look at that foamy top! Sweet mother of beverages! ...

A Friend of Mine is Melbourne, Australia based design studio that is turning out some fancy work. This identity system for The Modern Flower Co. is so snappy — I love seeing the system work across multiple pieces. Plus, typography integrated into latticework is always exciting. ...

J’adore by Heather Amuny-Dey If your in the San Francisco area this Saturday (11/21/09), this looks like it’s going to be a good show. De...

Mmm…deliciously patterned sweets! Swedish illustrator Jonas Bergstrand has an awesome eye for patterns and keen sense for earthy color. ...

The Swell Season Concert Poster by Doublenaut This week’s poster pick was made possible by the creative minds that make up Doublenaut. Doublenaut is stationed in Toronto, Canada and is made up of brothers Andrew and Matt McCracken. ...

Cody Hudson for Bodega - CH5 Wall Decal We’ve been seeing some good things happening in the world of wall art within the last few months, first with Poketo’s Spacetime Collection and now with Arkitip’s Bodega Collection. Bode...

Posters for the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ) Herbert Kapitzki, a former student of Willi Baumeister, conceived and designed exhibitions for the state industrial inspection board (Landesgewerbeamt) in Stuttgart in the 1950s and the early 1960s...

lisez, jouez et decouvrez La Scandinavie avec Andersen -by Paul de Roujoux, Pamela Labonnelie and Mireille Ballero. Illustrations by Martine Bourre c1975 editions des deux coqs d’or La Scandinavie avec Andersen is a beautiful children’s book about Scandinavian culture. Th...

I’ve always been impressed with Mark Weaver’s continuously fantastic collage series Make Something Cool Every Day. Firstly, making something like this every day is a great project — I love when designers make their personal work public. Seco...

A Colt is My Passport (1967) - Directed by Takashi Nomura If your into classic + cult films it would be worth your while to check Shannon Maldonado’s I Love Hot Dogs. Several times a week Shannon curates a selection of stills from a particular movie. ...

I visited New York last week, just in time to attend the opening reception of the Lubalin Now exhibition at the Cooper Union. The place was incredibly packed with ladies and gents in polychromatic garb, chatting about type with a nice drink in their hand...

I had a chance to check out Visual Acoustics this weekend and I highly recommend it. The documentary is about the life and work of Julius Shulman, a brilliant architectural photographer whose photos captured the history of modernist architecture in Southern California...

1. Come to Africa - Designed by Gerard van de Voort - c1975 How about virtual tour around the world to start off the week? I dug up a handful of travel related posters from 1950s -1970s for all the desk jockeys that are itching to get out of town. Enjoy! ...

Funkadelic! There is some serious soul in this typeface from Bulgaria-based designer Mihail Mihaylov. I’m such a sucker for bold type — I love the juicy, drippy, saturated feel of these letters. I can’t quite tell if the type is sprouting, or three-dimensional, or both. In a...