Here are Today’s images.
TODAY is a weekly jewel box of seemingly random, yet thoughtfully selected, images. At times tender, wicked, nostalgic, amusing, and dazzling, each edition is presented without narration, editing or explanation by its author, designer Eric Baker. "It all began as a goof. One day I sent a good friend about 50 random pictures of cheese. I don't know why, but to me cheese is funny, perhaps it is the word itself and its various connotations. Eventually I began looking closer, or should I say broader at 'things'. Things lost on the fringes...ordinary, odd, beautiful things. Esoteric images, old diagrams, typography, cartography — visions of a once promising but now extinct future."
Editor's Note: All images link to their original source and are copyright their original owners.
Editor's Note: All images link to their original source and are copyright their original owners.
Comments [10]
10.18.08
03:17
+ Insert Image: < img src="http://url/image.gif" />
10.18.08
10:13
10.19.08
01:47
10.19.08
09:21
10.19.08
10:31
Thanks Eric
10.19.08
11:40
Keep up the fine work Eric!
peace,
HMK
10.19.08
01:02
re. content - priceless - thats from 50 years ago....really great they allowed women to at least trace back then............
have just looked at the wrigley letterhead
the contrast between the images and the quality/ color of the paper
10.22.08
07:29
10.22.08
11:12
Considering that it is pre. MAC in its scope. There are heroes discussed and they are my heroes also.
History in the arts starts for me in the late 1950’s. I had heard of the School of Visual Arts through a high school friend of mine who had taken art in HS. Upon coming home from a very bad educational experience at FSU ( I had not realized that northern Florida was actual in the “Old South”), I returned to the safety of New York City and people who understood my accent and shared my sensibilities.
Anyway…The dates of my first attendance at SVA began in Sept. 1960 and ended in 1963 (BFA). I immediately went “out on the street” following graduation and found illustration work with numerous “girly”magazines. They were also known as the “crotch” magazines as that was their photographers’ focus. I worked the streets for a few years and then was hit with a stroke of incredible luck.
Jason McWhortor, a classmate of mine had been working at Push Pin Studios as an assistant to everyone doing anything and was getting a promotion. Pushpin was going to need another JM and I was asked to meet with the primary artists. I brought my most recent portfolio of illustrations done for MR. and SIR magazines as well as a few B & W ads I had done for NBC-TV. I was lucky that day and walked home with a full time job as PP’s new gopher. WOW! This was the first steady salary I had in 8 years and I was now working for Milton Glaser, et al.
12.13.08
12:49