A growing collection of keys, buttons and dials. Love this.
Small Trades
These photographs by Irving Penn of “Small Trades” are simply beautiful.
Mac OS Archives
Oh the memories: A collection of early Apple Computer User Interfaces.
How Spiders Fly
A 1909 animation on how spiders take to the air is a charming dip into the history of science. Stop motion has come a LONG way!
This Desk!
This desk, titled “Boomerang”, from 1970s totally stopped me in my tracks. What an incredible piece. Also, $85,000.
Making the New York Times
In September 1942, Office of War Information photographer Marjory Collins paid a visit to the offices of the New York Times, located at the iconic One Times Square and an annex on 43rd Street. Click through to see them all. Beautiful!
The Original Mac OS Control Panel
I remember the day my dad brought home our fist Mac. I was 11. Looking back now, the first control panel was a thing of beauty. Still cracking up over the turtle and bunny in the keyboard typing speed setting.
Anyone remember the game Frogger? I plaid for hours on end.
Record Player P1
A thing of beauty, the Dieter Rams designed Record Player P1 from 1959.
The Early Days of The Internet
An exhibition in London gathers 64 artifacts of the early web, from the first site that allowed users to order pizza online to one of the first animated GIFs to go viral. I wish I could see this!
Vogue x Tattly
Tattly partnered with Vogue Magazine. I keep giggling every time I mention those two brands together. It’s making my heart explode a little bit. It doesn’t escape me that it is an absolute privilege for a young company like Tattly to collaborate with an esteemed and trusted brand like Vogue! I remember sitting in their conference room, a few months back, overlooking lower Manhattan and thinking “is this really happening?”
And now it’s here, we launched the Vintage Vogue Collection. My team and I spent days going through their 125 year magazine archive and picked some of our favorite illustrations from the 20s, 30s and 40s.
The lady riding the zebra, which is a Vogue cover illustration is definitely the one that won my heart. But the there’s also the woman holding up a mask in the Vogue Set that keeps making me smile.
This is a limited edition collection, so get it while you can.
(My apologies to my international readers, unfortunately we are only allowed to ship within the U.S)
Oil Tank House Boat
It’s a houseboat made out of oil tank. I am weirdly intrigued by this.
I am definitely gravitating towards the absurd these days in order to distract and cope with the madness here in the U.S.
Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music
Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music by Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson (1968). Made me smile.
Historical Photos of NYC
OldNYC is a beautiful way to discover historical photos of New York City. Yes to digital time travel!
Soviet Arcade Machines
I want to go visit The Museum of Soviet Arade Machines!
Jam Zipper Jar Bag
Love these zip-close storage bags modeled after classic French jam jars. The design allows bags to stand when filled. Dishwasher and freezer safe, durable and leak proof.
Photographing New York City
Whit this vintage photo of a man with a stereoscope camera from 1904, I am kicking off my traditional two week summer vacation in the Swiss Alps! Look out for photos of green rolling hills, cheese and cows over on my Instagram.
Hand Painted Found Items
Loving this series of handpainted found items by Dirty Bandit. Long live puns!
LEGO Vintage 1960s Volskwagen
LEGO designers have developed a new flashback kit, a vintage 1960 Volkswagon Beetle. LOVE!
(via Chris)
The Isolator
Woah! The Isolator: A helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration. We all need this.
A Young Man’s Follies
Sarah Di Domenico bought a tin trunk at a store closing sale and found inside hundreds of handwritten love letters addressed to the same man. All dated throughout the 1950s, written by many women. She read them all and identified one great love. This complete stranger of years past, Omar, soon became a new man in her life.
She transcribed the letters, uprooted lost photographs, and photographed pieces of ephemera from 1940s maps to passports to thing-a-ma-bobs. A Young Man’s Follies is a website that documents and shares each handwritten letter and all of these pieces (except 1 pair of ladies underwear).
Play relationship voyeur and fall in love with a time when love was made by pen and ink.
Dymaxion
In the 1930s, the systems theorist, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller created the Dymaxion car — an aerodynamic concept car that managed to get 30 miles per gallon while topping out at 90 miles per hour, and transporting 11 passengers. So cool.