http://ubersuper.com Stuff I Like Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:10:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ubersuper.com/j/ http://ubersuper.com/j/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:37 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4466 By Simon Alander.]]> http://ubersuper.com/j/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/quite-a-place-to-live-in/ http://ubersuper.com/quite-a-place-to-live-in/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:14:21 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4353 An old photo of the Texas Ballroom in Chicago. Original Size 1280×1028]]> http://ubersuper.com/quite-a-place-to-live-in/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/japanese-graphic-design-from-the-1920s-30s/ http://ubersuper.com/japanese-graphic-design-from-the-1920s-30s/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:23:34 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4326 “Fuji Weekly” cover, Oct 1930 Grand Nagoya Festival poster by Kenkichi Sugimoto, 1933 Kyoto Grand Exposition to Commemorate the Showa Imperial Coronation, 1928 “NAPF” (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine cover, Feb 1931 “May 1″ movie poster by Hiromu Hara, 1928-1929 “The Advertising World” magazine cover, June 1926 “Reijin” sheet music cover, 1930 Poster for Tokyo [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/japanese-graphic-design-from-the-1920s-30s/feed/ 3 http://ubersuper.com/first-known-photograph-of-a-surfer-1890/ http://ubersuper.com/first-known-photograph-of-a-surfer-1890/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:48:30 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4091 This is the first known photograph ever taken of a surfer. Hawaii, 1890.]]> http://ubersuper.com/first-known-photograph-of-a-surfer-1890/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/beautiful-vintage-crayon-packages/ http://ubersuper.com/beautiful-vintage-crayon-packages/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:51:54 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3989 Was looking for some vintage package design and typography and found this on ffffound. Sorry for the lack of updates these past days, I’m a bit too busy this week. But don’t forget, there are always the archives to go through.]]> http://ubersuper.com/beautiful-vintage-crayon-packages/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/victorian-infographics/ http://ubersuper.com/victorian-infographics/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:31:25 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3940 This Selection from the Rumsey Map Collection is full of beautiful scans from old books. To take a closer look, click through his Flickr set, the scans are often quite big.]]> http://ubersuper.com/victorian-infographics/feed/ 2 http://ubersuper.com/old-phone-bw/ http://ubersuper.com/old-phone-bw/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:32:59 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3927 Lots of things to like in this beautiful shot by huragankatarina on Flickr.]]> http://ubersuper.com/old-phone-bw/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/a-240-year-old-map-is-reborn/ http://ubersuper.com/a-240-year-old-map-is-reborn/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:23:01 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3845 In May 2010, a tattered and brittle map was discovered in storage at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Experts identified it as a rare item, a Bernard Ratzer “Plan of the City of New York” map in its 1770 state. Until then, only three copies were thought to exist. Zoom in on the NYT and read [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/a-240-year-old-map-is-reborn/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/movie-typography-the-end/ http://ubersuper.com/movie-typography-the-end/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:08:21 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3809 What a great project! Don’t miss this huge collection of movie title stills for more and bigger images.]]> http://ubersuper.com/movie-typography-the-end/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/posters-by-kazumasa-nagai/ http://ubersuper.com/posters-by-kazumasa-nagai/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:46:15 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3698 What a great collection of posters by graphic artist Kazumasa Nagai from the 1960s and 1970s. More of his work on the pink tentacle.]]> http://ubersuper.com/posters-by-kazumasa-nagai/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/pony-express-advert/ http://ubersuper.com/pony-express-advert/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:32:00 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3656 Another great finding from Wikipedia: File:Pony ExpressAdvert.jpg]]> http://ubersuper.com/pony-express-advert/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/ http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:50:46 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3563 Boulevard du Temple, Paris, IIIe arrondissement, Daguerreotype. The purportedly first picture of a living person. The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/ http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:14:39 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3531 This flourished fraktur capital letter M was pasted into a sketchbook of romantic and medial lettering (traces, copies?) that some wonderful British gentlemen put together during the nineteenth century. Showed to us in the fantastic Monday afternoon sessions with Michael Twyman at the University of Reading. 1800s Lettering Sketchbook on Flickr]]> http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/form-53/ http://ubersuper.com/form-53/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:04:54 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3441 Nice illustration from Munich, 1971: form 53]]> http://ubersuper.com/form-53/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/the-way-of-the-crocodile/ http://ubersuper.com/the-way-of-the-crocodile/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:24:37 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3241 A rather confusing finding. A translation would be nice, or a book title. Anyone? Original size (1440×973 px) Update: Thanks to Michael (in the comments) and Christian (on Facebook), I learned that this is from a book called Codex Seraphinianus. The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-way-of-the-crocodile/feed/ 4 http://ubersuper.com/liberty-under-construction/ http://ubersuper.com/liberty-under-construction/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:02:52 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3188 Another rather weird vintage photo. This one is from the making of the liberty statue in New York. Original Size (1163×803 px)]]> http://ubersuper.com/liberty-under-construction/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/the-original-hipster/ http://ubersuper.com/the-original-hipster/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:48:55 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3190 This finding inspired me for my movember stache. Original Size ( 857×1321 px)]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-original-hipster/feed/ 2 http://ubersuper.com/a-good-old-trick-for-mothers/ http://ubersuper.com/a-good-old-trick-for-mothers/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:58:09 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3102 For Mothers Only To cure boys of the habit of not keeping shirttails tucked in, sew an edging of lace around the bottom of the lad’s shirt. There’ll be no more shirttails showing.]]> http://ubersuper.com/a-good-old-trick-for-mothers/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/old-swissair-poster/ http://ubersuper.com/old-swissair-poster/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:22:10 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3028 Found this awesome vintage Swissair poster on grain edit who found it on this Swissair fanpage.]]> http://ubersuper.com/old-swissair-poster/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/ulc-back-issues-to-be-made-available/ http://ubersuper.com/ulc-back-issues-to-be-made-available/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:35:10 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2989 ITC also began pub­lish­ing U&lc, The Inter­na­tional Journal of Typo­graph­ics in 1974. Herb Lub­alin was the edit­or­ial and art dir­ector of the first issue and his sem­inal design set the stage for future issues of trend set­ting and award win­ning edit­or­ial creations. How awesome is that? U&lc back issues to be made available!]]> http://ubersuper.com/ulc-back-issues-to-be-made-available/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/vintage-mash-up-car/ http://ubersuper.com/vintage-mash-up-car/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:49:53 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2973 GOOFY CAR has cut-down Chevy hood, Ford Anglia chassis, T-33 jet trainer wing tanks. slightly larger (799×578 pixels)]]> http://ubersuper.com/vintage-mash-up-car/feed/ 0