Mind Travel

Cruises to Every Land through Every Sea brochure, 1927

dreaming of salty air, sunny lands and wild life...

Raymond-Whitcomb steamship brochure, 1929

These two pieces come from the large archives of awesome ephemera at travelbrochuregraphics. Check out the great collection of modernist brochures featuring designs by the likes of Herbert Matter and Erberto Carboni.

unidentified design from my old collection of paper clippings

Australia poster by Gert Sellheim, 1937,

from the National Library of Australia Digital Collections

Portugal poster by Gustavo Fontoura, 1954

Air Afrique poster by Jacques Auriac, c.1965

from a beautiful Grain Edit post on 1950s-70s travel posters

Fly BOAC poster featuring puzzled Pakistani tigers

from Pignouf's huge vintage poster Picasa album

Swissair poster by Hugo Wetli, from Graphis Annual 1958-59

Air India poster by K.K. Save, from Graphis Annual 1962-63

Air France Chile poster by Nathan Garamond, from Graphis Annual 1963-64

Qantas Johannesburg airline sticker, from Illustration Today textbook 1963

Cover of Holiday magazine by George Giusti, from Graphis Annual 1966-67

this last series of five gorgeously colorful graphics comes from one of flickr's happier lands,

the wonderful collection of mid-century design and illustration by sandiv999

thank you everyone for all the happy travelling!

Simone Rea

Detective selvaggi (Wild detectives)

Furba (Smart)

Guardando la televisione (Watching television)

La nascita dell'uovo (The birth of the egg)

L'inventore (The inventor)

Gli sposi (The newlyweds)

Capracanta (Singing goat)

Bu bu!?

Fenicotteri banchettano (Flamingo banquet)

Il lupo e la pecora (The wolf and the sheep)

These are some artworks by Simone Rea, a talented Italian illustrator I have discovered

 while exploring the intricate and joyful network of interconnected European illustrators' blogs. 

I have also found a very interesting guest post by Simone on le figure dei libri, where he shows

 the painstaking technique he has developed to create the beautiful textured surfaces of his paintings.

I can be a frog

A minimalist animalist video featuring Karen O on animal sounds.

Monday Matticchio – Come in

Sunday Safari - Sleepyheads

Emma & Tina on the duvet

Today the sun was out and we went for a beautiful walk by the river, but otherwise I have been mostly 

chilling in the wind and the rain or staying indoors. The most pleasurable moments are usually in the evenings, 

when we all snuggle up in bed for hours with our winter stash of chocolates, books, tea, music and movies. 

I wish safe, cozy and warm winter nights to all you sleepy creatures out there, under the blankets or the stars.

...then sleep by Rilla Alezander

Elephant bed and Tiger bed by animalsleepstories

Cover and illustration from Off to bed by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1954, thanks to Art.crazed

Sleeping snow leopard by Diana Sudyka

The tabby one and The ginger one by Celia Hart

John Vanderslice & Saint Vincent music poster by Leia Bell

Illustration from Miss Suzy by Arnold Lobel, 1964,

from Estelle and Ivy's 1960's illustrations flickr collection

Spread from Wesole odwiedziny by Bohdan Wroblewski, thanks to hipopotamstudio

Illustration by Garth Williams for Mister dog by Margaret Wise Brown

Photo from de slaapzaal series by Karin Nussbaumer

Giraffe sleeping limited edition print by Guido Pigni

A shelter by Stasys Eidrigevicious, thanks to A Journey Round My Skull

Illustration from My little animal friends of the forest by Romain Simon,

from Flamenconut's wonderful Beast Feast flickr set