24 Friday Feb 2012
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Despite a hint of winter today, the weather has been close to warm enough here in the Toronto area to bike ride as if it’s April. Claire Harmer’s green utility bike (above) is a lovely reminder of the full biking season to come.
-From the Czech Republic, by Ales Motyl
- ‘I Want to Ride My Bicycle’ by Ranga Krishnamani
-The Milkman’s Bicycle, by Dr. Ankur Zalawadia, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
-Yamaha Power Assisted Bike Concept sketch, from designer Lee Sankey
23 Thursday Feb 2012
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This reception area for the ad firm Leo Burnett in Singapore was irresistible. That’s the founder (Leo himself) sketched onto the walls, presumably with the pencil that remains. The idea came from the local firm Ministry of Design.
22 Wednesday Feb 2012
These travel sketches are from the diary of Stephen Tennant (1906-1987), a friend of the photographer Cecil Beaton, recording a holiday in Gibraltar, Morocco and Tangier in 1948. Such colorful composition. Go here for more from these diaries, found in the St. John’s College library archives.
-Fishermen mending their nets in Algeciras, Gibraltar.
21 Tuesday Feb 2012
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This unusual sketch from 1840, sold by Grosvenor Auctions for £900, is a letter with a sketch titled ‘The advantages derived by living in London.’ It’s illustrated with scenes of a drunken man falling out of his coach, lying in the gutter and being arrested by the police, and scenes relating to school (a seated boy in a dunce’s hat, a patrolling schoolmaster, etc.)
