Image of the Day: Tin Cigarette Case

A gift from my son this year, an old cigarette tin. 

Very cool fonts, colors, and graphics!

Image of the Day: Parking Lot Litter

Spotted in the parking lot on my way to lunch.

Images of the Day: Mark Police

Jobs for the tireless Mark Police!

Yes, this version of the Mark is licensed!

Earworm of the Day: When Winter Comes a-Callin'

During my 8-mile run yesterday, my earworm When Winter Comes a-Callin' is from this album by The Ray Charles Singers.

Not the easiest song to find online, but with a bit of online navigating, you can listen to most of it at this link on Amoeba.com  It is number 10 in the listing; just click on the red triangle beside the number 10 to hear 1:12 minutes of the entire 3:12 minute recording.

HVBC's Ampersand Cocktail

My wife recently surprised me with this typographic cocktail crafted by Liz at Happy Valley Brewing Company. You can learn about this drink, as well as others like the Interrobang Manhattan, the Asterisk, and a Pilcrow Fashioned, at this Shady Characters link. 

As always, please use non-standard punctuation marks and other typographic curiosities responsibly.

September 5: Freddie For a Day

Freddie For A Day is an annual initiative celebrated on September 5, Freddie Mercury's birthday, to raise funds to support the work of the Mercury Phoenix Trust. You can find out more about Freddie for a Day here, and even download a two-page PDF of the Tashe Template here.

Image of the Day: Pantone Purple-M Marker

Purchased over thirty years ago for an assignment at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, this marker is still going strong!

Image of the Day: Pareidolia

Image of the Day: Run Its Course

I found the battery resting in a parking lot's paint line. This image is has not been retouched or edited.

Image of the Day: Wabash

Book Traces

First seen on the Green Chair Press blog, Book Traces is a project to track down and  digitize the human markings in 19th-century books.

"Thousands of old library books bear fascinating traces of the past. Readers wrote in their books, and left notes, pictures, letters, flowers, locks of hair, and other things between their pages. We need your help identifying them because many are in danger of being discarded as libraries go digital. Books printed between 1820 and 1923 are at particular risk.  Help us prove the value of maintaining rich print collections in our libraries."

Visit Book Traces here.

You Blew It on the Name: Part 2

The latest in the continuing saga of following the name that Direct TV used on two of their direct mail promotions to me; did Gieco purchase my name from Direct TV?

Image of the Day: Peonies and Ants

Photo by Terri Lukens-Gable

You can read about the beneficial relationship between ants and peonies at this link.

Image of the Day: "Moiré" Amsterdam

Morey Amsterdam's tie is strobing with a moiré pattern.

More on moirés can be found at this link, and more on Morey Amerstam at this link.

Image of the Day: Open

Image of the Day: Prescription Diet Watermark

On my light-table at work, the watermark "Crown Line" shows up very nicely.
This is a companion to my post on 5/23 "Image of the Day: Prescription Diet"

Image of the Day: S. Cooke Imgraham's Books

Welcome to My Desktop, Mac Pro

We'll be phasing out the Mac Pro Towers at work for the newly designed versions over the next several weeks. Of special note, the Apple decals are in matte black! I'll post an updated images of my desktop when we get the dual monitors set-up. 

Image of the Day; Heavier Stationery Paper and Not Cocaine

Earworm of the Day: Chvrches "Tightrope"

I first heard about this song on NPR. Chvrches cover Janelle Monáe's "Tightrope" Live at Billboard Women In Music 2013

Image of the Day; The Request

Outside of the note . . .

and the inside of the note.

Image of the Day: Prescription Diet

Earworm of the Day: The Who's "Love reign o'er me"

Listen to it here.

Image of the Day: Oldest and Newest Business Cards

My oldest business card, most likely circa 1880s that I discovered with other S. Cooke Ingraham ephemera,  and the newest addition picked up by my son in NYC.

"This Looks Like a Job for the Penn State Mark Police!"

Penn State Creamery Gift Card

Burger King

IST Building

IST Building

Giant Food

Giant Food

Images of the Day: Raising of the Chipmunk

Weighing in at weighs 6500 pounds, the Chipmunk logo is  ~35 feet by 25 feet.

Image of the Day: Hook & Ladder

Another version of this can be found here; love the way the ampersand overlaps itself.

Image of the Day: Friends with a Lock

Images of the Day: Snow Pack

On the Penn State University Park campus, remnants of our brutal winter. Photos taken this morning at 6:20 a.m. 

At their peak, the piles were over one-story tall,  and were created from plowing and dumping snow off of the upper levels of the parking deck. They are on the northern side of the deck.

Image of the Day: Never Take a Finish Line for Granted

"Never take a finish line for granted." — Bart Yasso

Mooch

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” 

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

Mooch, me, Molly, and Henry

Image of the Day: Plastic Army Guy

Discovered today in the parking lot at work.

Among friends in my office.

Jensen's “Crystal” Pepsin

Letter from J. C Perry & Co., Sole Travelling and Advertising Agents of Carl L. Jensen’s  Preparations, recently found by me stuck between pages in an old book. 

Ads for the Crystal Pepsin can be found here in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 8, October 1890 and here in the The National Druggist, Volume 12, Issue 8, April 15, 1888. Many other great ads can be found by scrolling through these two links.