Dear Apple, Thank you for the following improvements in Tiger: Reducing the time it takes to launch an app. Making the default screenshot format PNG instead of PDF. Changing Safari so that when it errors out on a web page … Continue reading →

LAist frets over restaurant pagers and the curse of being out of range when your number comes up. Rather old news though, I tested this once with a pager from the Arclight’s cafe which still worked inside the Border’s Books … Continue reading →

Go directly to this Flickr photoset of advertisements from 1969/1970 issues of the German graphic design mag Gebrauchsgraphik. Do it now, I’ll wait. [via The Cartoonist]

It’s rare enough to see a one-time “car of the future”, especially when it’s just parked down the street, but I’ve been driving past this Lagonda every day for a couple months now and can’t help but smile. The first … Continue reading →

Still chugging along through cover art for the ILMiXor series. Here’s art for Volume 2, subtitled “Pop Top 40 From Another World.” That cover image came from Dmitry Popov’s terrific “Drive Back In Time” photograph series. Worth checking out when … Continue reading →

I posted a photo of iconic Figueroa car dealership Felix Chevrolet awhile back and Franklin Avenue links to a LA Times story about it. I had no idea that dealership has been around since 1928.

1. The retrofuturism of Tales Of Future Past. 2. The ABC Movie Of The Week. Specially the opening graphics. 3. Italian Police Lamborghinis 4. The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project 5. Penny Postcards. There are lots of vintage post card … Continue reading →