Paper in all its glorious manifestations

I have found some fantastic papers lately and thought why not share them?! These posion labels are by way of Spookshows and can be printed out!

Lovely/gruesome Civil War trading cards from Bob Heffner:





Cambodian pulp-novel covers (this particular woman seems to have some marriage troubles...):

Vintage condom labels:

Pulp book covers, with a tendency towards the octopus, by way of Francesca!

Rats and other critters

I am so enamored of Nonfiction Design Collective and their homages to rats - the most misunderstood of vermin. But here is a sampling of their extraordinary collection that goes beyond the simple rat - includes items from their sister site Future Retrieval:

How can you not love such whimsical people?

Swallow Brooklyn!

One of my all-time fave stores in Brooklyn is Swallow. If I were ever to open a small shop, this would be it. It's a fairyland of wonderful objects, these listed below being my favorite...

They are working on a full online presence so until then, take the subway!

The Body Sublime

Maybe because I'm a scientific idiot, with my own ideas about how things work, I have always adored early anatomy drawings when doctors and artists were just beginning to see inside the body. They infused their work with dream-imagery because the body is, after all, a dream, no less so today than it was in the 18th century. Clearly they felt a need to continue to view the body as attached to a "personality" so these below images are fantastic examples of that very concept.


By way of the great site "Dream Anatomy"...

16th Century anatomical "pop-up" fugitive sheets, by way of the excellent blog "Morbid Anatomy":

And the final whimsy, kids' versions of their internal bodies!