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Clarity of design makes this timeless watch an archetypal beauty.  Designed by Swiss architect and designer Max Bill for Junghans.

Via may the circle remain unbroken on Flickr.

Solid work in the portfolio of design studio Jung + Wenig.

Via AisleOne.

Nice collection of images here by renowned German fashion photogapher F. C. Gundlach.

A great archive of photographs of the work of Mid-Century Modernist architect William Krisel over on PS Modcom (The Palm Springs Modern Commitee), together with a collection of his hand drawn renderings.

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Isn’t that a portable Panasonic Travelvision from the early 1980’s…?

(…or just a feeble attempt at trying to justify the inclusion of yet more gratuitous nudity in one’s blog?)

Via Retrodoll.

Display is a curated collection of important graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera organized, designed and maintained by Kind Company, an independent web and print design office in Brooklyn, New York.

Display intends to build a digital graphic collection (from original materials) which generates inspiration and awareness about modern, mid 20th century graphic design history and some of its pioneers.

Loving the cool Modernist/Swiss style of Dutch design studio, Stout/Kramer.

I also like their take on their role as graphic designers:

“We are trained as graphic designers.
The profession is constantly changing and as we see it, can no longer be defined.
Our way of working distinguishes itself by being conscious of the position
the designer can take in the process.
We don’t want to set ourselves up as merely designers of a message.
We see ourselves as editors and directors of communication.
As editor the designer interprets the content and context of a message.
As director the designer is responsible for the appropriate means of communication.”

Via @AisleOne.

Now I am not one prone to envy, but I am turning a tinge of green knowing that someone else, not me, possesses this  signed letter from Walter Gropius, on official Bauhaus stationary designed by Herbert Bayer.

Appearing in the footer of the letterhead are the words “wir schreiben alles klien, denn wir sparen damit zeit” which translated means “we write everything small, thus saving time.”

Photographic evidence that having a taste for modernism doesn’t necessarily make you a cold and stuffy anal retentive geek.

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