(Link to source, with many more, broken — sorry…)

Amanda Marie Reimer (1926-1974)

Only the young die good...

Rapperswil, Switzerland

Among the Swiss graphic designers who so greatly shaped the direction of our profession in the last century, perhaps none was more influential than Josef Müller-Brockmann, (1914-1996).

Shown above are a selection of his posters.

Brno, Czech Republic

Wow. A decade sure does slip by fast… today I stumbled across an editorial I wrote for Icograda’s BoardMessage 11 years ago this month, here.

Yoikes.

If you like vintage collectables and graphic ephemera, you can find thousands of matchbook photographs here…

—Lao Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC)

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

—John McCrae (1872–1918)

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

—Buddha