VISUAL COMMUNICATION HISTORY BLOG

Eduardo Recife explains the origins of his remarkable art and design output as follows: "I´ve been drawing since I was little. At school I had notebooks filled with drawings instead of notes. I used to tattoo my buddies with a black ink pen. I used to draw on any kind of surface when I was bored... I believe it's what I do best. It's also the best way for me to communicate things I can't find words for... It's a therapy…

These are things that I collected over some time. So, unfortunately there is no resource link that goes with this post, except to direct you to pinterest > > > where you will find lots and lots of images which will however mostly link you back to places where they are selling them.

Published by Schalekamp, van de Grampel en Bakker, Amsterdam. Found on the Memory here > > >

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The U. S. National Archives collection on Flickr is one of the greatest places to find visual communication history related material. 131 sets in total, and one of them is all about patent application drawings, mostly from the 19th Century - although there are a few contemporary prize gems (such as Michael Jackson's application for anti-gravity shoes) as well: View the full set  here >>> .

I found this here:  http://hubpages.com/hub/vintage-victorian-flowers-and-fruit , to where I was directed to from here:  http://wordplayblog.com/ . Rather nice pages for Victoriana, so I am thinking that they will be good things to share. I added the dark background, however you can find the original illustration here .

http://www.trautrimas.ca/ David Trautrimas takes the components of familiar household appliances and transforms them into ironic/iconic architectural landscape paintings such as top secret Cold War era military outposts or residential building sites. The images below are "Micro Re-Instigator" from the The Spyfrost series (top), "The Fishing Complex" (middle) and the "Coffee Pot Towers" (bottom) from the Habitat ser…

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ To read from its header this is a blog on "books, illustrations, history, science, Visual Materia Obscura and eclectic book art" . And is it ever! I have been looking and looking since I found it. The blog takes its visual feed from a huge Flickr stream , of many many sets full of good sized images, covering all cultures and historic periods, with an emphasis on what can probably be called "curio&qu…

This is a great project developed by Cam Wilde at squidspot.com . You can purchase prints and other memorabilia, such as vinyl decals or even a moleskine notebook cover, at a page dedicated to the table . Cam Wilde tells us that "the Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the m…