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/hummingbird/ http://ubersuper.com/hummingbird/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 16:43:33 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4475 I love this sign, makes me want to eat and drink there.]]> http://ubersuper.com/hummingbird/feed/ 0 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/labatts-beer-truck-with-swagger/ http://ubersuper.com/labatts-beer-truck-with-swagger/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:21:09 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4398 ]]> http://ubersuper.com/labatts-beer-truck-with-swagger/feed/ 0 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/which-magazine-covers/ http://ubersuper.com/which-magazine-covers/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:06:38 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4318 James Ward has a ton of old Which? Magazine Covers from the 60′s and 70′s in his Flickr set.]]> http://ubersuper.com/which-magazine-covers/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/why-is-it-so-quiet-here/ http://ubersuper.com/why-is-it-so-quiet-here/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:23:08 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4164 Some of you may wonder what happend to the post frequency and why there are currently no regular or even daily updates. Let’s all blame New York! I’m currently on a 10 week long trip in New York, before that I was busy getting client work done and hoped to update more regularly while in [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/why-is-it-so-quiet-here/feed/ 0 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/facial-soap-advertisment/ http://ubersuper.com/facial-soap-advertisment/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:40:14 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4018 Much retro love for Woodbury’s facial soap advertisment. Design by HDR Visual Communication.]]> http://ubersuper.com/facial-soap-advertisment/feed/ 0 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/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/retro-style-recovery-kits/ http://ubersuper.com/retro-style-recovery-kits/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:54:24 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3601 Beautiful retro-inspired Recovery Kits by Knock Knock.]]> http://ubersuper.com/retro-style-recovery-kits/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/above-the-clouds/ http://ubersuper.com/above-the-clouds/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:32:19 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3509 Nice processing, hard to believe this photo was taken in 2010 by David Terrazas.]]> http://ubersuper.com/above-the-clouds/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/ad-from1975-for-citroen/ http://ubersuper.com/ad-from1975-for-citroen/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:48:02 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3445 Nice retro typography and minimalism in this vintage ad for Citroën.]]> http://ubersuper.com/ad-from1975-for-citroen/feed/ 0 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/soul-enkindled/ http://ubersuper.com/soul-enkindled/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:09:23 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3421 Beautiful ornaments and typography in Soul Enkindled by `monavx.]]> http://ubersuper.com/soul-enkindled/feed/ 1