Brian Paul Nelson – Branding / Design / Illustration">Brian Paul Nelson

Dating from the late 1700s up through the 1990s playbills were the main form of communication for theatrical events and as you can see utilized some very impressive type and layout options to really grab hold of the public’s attention. Leeds Playbills contains nearly 5,000 high resolution scans of these vibrant playbills which are part of the Leodis digitization project from the Local Studies Library collection in Leeds. The time and care that went into setting the type and printing these bills is amazing and well worth the tedious effort to produce posters like these.

Via Woodtyper.

The ampersand has always been one of my favorite characters. In many good typefaces it usually has a little more personality than the rest of the character set and is always fun to design with. The Ampersand is a nice blog dedicated to the little guy where users submit pictures of any type of ampersand they come across. Above are some of my favorites from the site, especially that last one from House Industries.

Beautiful mix of photographs from Todd Richardson who not only shoots in digital, but also with a 35mm and Polaroid. His eye for composition, color and processing is striking to say the least. You feel as if the real world actually had the vibrant colors and effects his photographs truly bring.

Vintage Bus is exclusively devoted to the vintage Volkswagen buses built from 1949 to 1967, otherwise known as split-window buses, splitties, splits, microbuses, micros, transporters, bullies, sambas and transporters. The shape of the buses really lend towards the branding of them with many different companies where they utilized the space with color and type in very intriguing ways. VW needs to start producing these again, at least for the sake of design like this.

Via Original Linkage.