The Bookwheel, invented in 1588 by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli, was a heavy, 600-pound wooden rotating bookcase that let scholars easily use up to eight open books at once. It had a clever gear system to keep the books upright as the wheel turned by hand, saving time for readers who didn’t have to fetch books from shelves. Featured in Ramelli’s book of machines, it was a creative Renaissance tool for studying, though it’s uncertain how many were actually made.
Wow, I love this collection of Vintage Swedish Packaging.
I can’t stop smiling.
This vintage looking cassette player and bluetooth speaker combo by NINM made me gasp. What a beauty!
Loving these pieces by Swiss Graphic Design legend Erik Nitsche. Would love to own one of these!
These vintage board games from 1967 are oddly beautiful.
These vegetable outfits made me smile.
Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902). Delightful.
John Cleese Presents His 5-Step Plan for Shorter, More Productive Meetings (1976)
All drawings by Edouard Joseph d’Alton (1838). Available as prints at The Public Domain Review.
I am wildly fascinated by this graphic, found in an article called The Zodiac Man.
Image credits: A woodcut recreation of an image by A. G. de Brocar, 1495, in Johannes de Ketham’s Libro de medicina (1517).
This vintage Japanese typewriter is utterly fascinating.
In 1956, the Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota, opened its doors and became America’s first climate-controlled indoor shopping mall.
An impressive archive, hundreds of old handheld consoles: electronicplastic.com
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I just stumbled upon this gem of a Tweet. I mean, look at these images? Look at the happy carrot man!
This archive of old concept cars is pure delight! I love you, internet! (If only it didn’t feature all those ads. Ugh)
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A growing online database of Letraset Sheets. Be still my heart.
Vintage videos with Dr. Berne about Transnational Analysis, a system for understanding people’s behavior who are trying to change people’s behavior and for predicting people’s behavior.
I love this car.
