Vintage

Some people want to see the Pyramids of Egypt or the Liberty Statue... me, I want to visit the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum ! So, I need to post when I see on tweeter that they need to move soon... how can they move so much stuffs, heavy machine and giant letters... They need support from the design community !

 

If you do not know the place, a great DVD was made about it, you can see the trailer on youtube.

 

 

And some pictures found on the flickr :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, again, support them, or check their amazing shop for type lovers...

 

 

I want to do this for a long time, but finaly prefer to keep it for the new Graphic exchange ;) I will share from time to time the thousand images of old paper, ephemera and other textures I have in my hard drive... I have " source" folder  where I store all these images, I jump into it when I start a new creation. Here come some of these images...

 

 

 

 

These are metal stencils, I love these items...

 

 

Now the site is online, I can go back to my usual posts ! Back on october 18th (read first post here), in Singapore, still guided by Yong, designer behind Somewhere Else. After visiting The gentlemen press letterpress and design studio, and have a nice lunch with the team, Yong bring us to a very nice street full of great shops : Yong Siak Street

 

 

We start with the amazing Books Actually, I could live in this shop ! As it said on front, it is a bookstore and a vintage bric-a-brac !!! Books and vintage objects everywhere !!! A must see !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just at the side of it, is another designers shop, where I can get my fields notes books as I miss some: Stangelets. I also get a copy of the Singapore design magazine The design society journal there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After these 2 shops, when went to visit Bureau, a creative studio... Graphic designers, but they also do a great line of furnitures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then enjoy a nice coffee... Thanks a lot Yong for this great day.

 

So, after 2 days, I am really happy of all the nice feedbacks I get, email, facebook, twitter... thanks ! I want to post before but thousand things to do and fix...

 

As you know, sponsors are now included. But I do not want to just have random commercials of non related projects. I want to present shops, products and brands that I like... The only question I ask myself is "would I talk about this product/brand/shop if they werre not a sponsor ?". If they answer is yes, they have to take part of the Mr Cup project...

 

Each week, I will then present the 1 Product / 1 shop / 1 blog... If you want to be one of them for comming weeks, feel free to contact me.

 

So, thanks for all the first orders that prove it was a good idea :) Do not forget the much you order, the more free extra letters you have... Just write your text on the ordering page and you will see the price... Simple...

Shop : Rifle Paper Co

I love the singularity of this brand and all the products they propose... Images are better than words :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the name of this blog !!! Megan did an amazing work, presenting thousand of vintage images. You can also have high resolution images for free... That's what inspires me to do the vintage section of this blog, as I have thousand old papers and photos in my hard drive... This beer stamps are just amazing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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