I love posting this application, just after my Google cannot design rant. It makes me love, really love when designers ‘design’ applications, and not engineers and programmers. In this case it was created and designed by mega agency Fallon.

 

This little beauty called Skimmer is an application to help you manage all your time wasting community sites that you love to post on. It runs on Adobe Air, which I haven’t got too much into, but this app has struck a new interest in it. I have to say, this application is very nice and is very well designed. The code gets a little flaky for me sometimes with a black overlay screen hanging on me sometimes, but a quit restart solves that. I assume in due time it will be even smoother, but for a free app this is the hotness!

This isn’t the first time I have posted this, and I expect not my last either. But ALK1’s Flickr stream is for sure one of the strongest documenting American, English and European Graphic Design history on Flickr. I really enjoyed her recent post of her late husbands archives from before there was a proper Helvetica library available in Portland. Read more…

What an amazing set of illustrations and drawings at the ‘In The Year 2000‘ photoset on Flickr. Not to be missed, browse this nice collection and check some of the credits and history behind some of these illustrations. Very Inspiring and these will always leave you with what a let down of what didn’t happen, hah.

It’s all bigger, hairier and sexier than anything us kids are doing these days. Thanks to Tom Crabtree for the collection.

Oh yes, The monstrous Library of Congress has entered the Flickr realm, better late than never my friends. Maybe your asking, but just what is the LOC? From the source itself, “We serve as the national library for the United States, based in Washington, DC. With more than 134 million items preserved on some 530 miles of bookshelves, we’re also the world’s largest library. In addition to books, we have photos, maps, databases, movies, sound recordings, sheet music, manuscripts, and information in many other formats. Millions of items are online, and the full array of collections is available in DC, right across from the U.S. Capitol building.”

If there is a god, her name is flickr. Here’s our latest find of vintage goodies to plow through. Thanks to the French Pita ou Franck for the collection.

Crazy Collection

Jay Parkinson is an Doctor & Photographer. His methods of medical practice are also very modern, interesting approach for sure. Does it get anymore random that that? He has a nice collection of work on Flickr too.

Canadian photographer Hamish Grant found a treasure of mid-century posters and is now sharing.

If you haven’t heard about Mr. Mireault yet then you gotta fix that. He can be found here, here, & here. And here. Montreal knows how to party.