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There are numerous sites documenting the ground we walk on, but my favourite has to be MSRY's Archive of Japanese Access Covers (sewer covers).

You can view the entire archive of 2400+ photos on their Flickr site.

Some similar links:

Written In Stone is a gallery of sidewalks and the stamps and seals left by the people who laid them.

Written in Stone

A gallery of sidewalks, and the stamps and seals left by the people who laid them.

Here's another for Oakland, California:

Oakland Underfoot

fossils in the city’s hardscape

Oakland Underfoot

And Denver, Colorado:

Sidewalk Stamps — Andrew Alger

Denver sidewalks are not great. In the next election cycle you can vote to make them better & I hope you do! One great thing about Denver sidewalks are these wonderful little stamps! What a great advertising method. Most stamps I find are decades old. Maybe companies don’t do this anymore. There

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"In 1892, Cincinnati printer John Earhart, published The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing, in which he detailed his methods for creating hundreds of color mixtures and thousands of color combinations as well as advice for complementary colors, using harmonious colors, and printing."

The Color Printer site is a digital edition of Earhart’s work created by Nicholas Rougeux with enhanced reproductions.

The Color Printer

Digital edition of John Earhart’s 1892 treatise on using colors in typographic printing

Color Printer

Spine Magazine is an online publication devoted to book cover design and book culture. I linked to them back in 2022 when they featured a Vonnegut special, but they're worth checking out at the root url.

Plenty of interviews with designers, authors, and illustrators, and of course, lots of gorgeous book covers, including early drafts and alternates.

SPINE

Spine Magazine is an online publication devoted to book cover design and book culture.

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Last year, Rotating Sandwiches took the top prize at the Tiny Awards. They're back for 2024 and nominations are open until June 23.

The Tiny Awards exist to 'celebrate people making stuff on the internet for the fun of it and the love of it and the hell of it." Their site is here:

Tiny Awards

Tiny awards, tiny prize, tiny trophy, big love

You can view all of last year's nominees in this Google Doc and visit winner, Rotating Sandwiches, below.

Rotating Sandwiches

that’s it

Rotating Sandwiches

Dead simple, drag & drop websites for anything can be created using mmm.page. A Tiny Bell was not made with this platform but it looks fun and like something others will find useful.

mmm.page — Your Corner of the Internet

Websites don’t have to be so cookie cutter. Make a website that feels uniquely you in under five minutes.

mmm.page

Things Magazine has compiled an archive of Pelican Book covers from the 1930s through the 1980s. I first found this archive back in 2008 and am delighted that it's still online.

The entire archive can be viewed on the Things Magazine website.

Yesterday would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday. To celebrate, designer Alicia Raitt has re-imagined all 14 of Vonnegut’s book covers.

View the full gallery here.

Check out designer Alicia Raitt's site — she's the Founder and Creative Director of Milk & Bone Design.

Chair Times — A History of Seating, From 1800 to Today is a 90 minute movie (below) and a series of 16 short films and that range from a couple minutes each to about an hour. Presented by Vitra.