Posted in Paper on Jun 22nd, 2010
Japanese magazines are way better than ours. Part catalog, part style guide, all Kanji.
The latest issue of Japan’s Free & Easy is all about boots, bikes, and cameras. You don’t even have to be a casual reader of ours to know how that appeals to Launderette. An amazing archive of American men’s fashion, Free [...]
Posted in Paper on May 10th, 2010
Rifle Paper Co. specializes in hand-painted, customized stationery of striking beauty.
We’d probably hire, call, or email anyone that handed us a calling card including a Rifle Paper portrait.
We sure appreciate stationery companies that love paper as much as we do. How many people truly appreciate the cards, letters, and invitations that they receive? Who notices [...]
Posted in Paper on May 7th, 2010
Freelance photographer Frank Worth befriended some of Hollywood’s big names of the 40s and 50s taking intimate production stills before such candids were common place. Considering these photos private mementos, Worth’s family found nearly 10,000 rarely seen and never published negatives in his apartment upon his death.
A&I and International Images’ book, Americana depicts Worth’s collection [...]
Posted in Paper on Feb 15th, 2010
Happy President’s Day! – Make some money-gami.
Click picture above for instructions.
Posted in Paper on Feb 10th, 2010
One of our favorite artists, Graphic Designer and Scherenschnittist* Cindy Ferguson, was kind enough to answer a few questions in anticipation of her Salt Lake City show February 19th.
*Scherenschnitte (pronunced: Sharon-shnit-uh: German for “scissor cuts”), is the art of papercutting design.
I have been papercutting since September of 2006. My friend Kim and I visited [...]
Posted in Paper on Jan 28th, 2010
Shooting almost exclusively on Polaroid film, there is a foggy comfort to the work of photographer Dusdin Condren. Images bleed into depth and shadows, and leave a sense of age to them. There is so much beauty in the softness and wear, as though both the subject and physical image passed through great exertion to [...]
Posted in Paper on Jan 12th, 2010
Bow Ties, 1990
Painter Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced “Tee-bo.”) started as a commercial artist, a field that seemed to influence his most iconic images of displayed cakes, pies, eyeglasses, and ties. Working in oils and lithographs he often creates two variations of the same image. The depicted color print for example, has a companion version in black [...]
Posted in Paper on Dec 24th, 2009
In honor of tonight’s celestial events past & present, we highlight the work of British graphic designer Simon Page. A fellow lover of typography and illustration, he created this stunning series of posters for the International Year of Astronomy – 2009 (bet you didn’t know we were coming to close on that too this Dec. [...]
Posted in Paper on Dec 9th, 2009
Launderette loves a good Paper.
Nothing like a ready, mobile notepad for jotting down naval coordinates and barometer readings. Bocce ball scores, continental breakfast schedules, cumulus observations… whatever your notion or reminder, being prepared to record it is paramount.
Field Notes makes a sharp little memo for just such a requirement. Debonair in its standard khaki, [...]
