Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/centuryofthechild/

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) traces the history of childhood through products designed for - and art objects about - children since 1900. Follow the button wheel clockwise to progress through the decades. Some notable examples are a group of Prairie School objects including a 1902 high chair designed by William Drummond, and one of the most well-known Frank Lloyd Wright icons, the stained glass window from the Avery Coonley Playhouse. Chicago is highlighted as influential in the playground movement with an image of a swing set from 1905, in a city park. A smiling Walt Disney stands next to an aerial view of Disneyland near the beginning of the "Power Play," 1960s to 1990s section of the exhibition. A little later on the timeline, see Jake & Dinos Chapman's "Unhappy Meal III," presented without curatorial commentary, related to an advertisement for Nutricia, an enriched powdered milk supplement, dated 1927-28.  

World War II Poster Collection

During World War II, the United States government crafted hundreds of different posters to promote military service, the conservation of natural resources, and so on. The Northwestern University Libraries has collected and digitized 338 of these posters for close consideration by the curious public. The majority of the items here were issued between 1941 and 1945, and they can be searched by keyword, issuing agency, description, and artist. First-time visitors may do well to look over the two excellent posters created 

by the celebrated artist Ben Shahn. http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/

Innovative and creative uses of postcards

Postcards have gone a long way these days. The humble postcard is not just used as a simple greeting card or an advertising material. This small piece of print can now be used in many purposes more than just sending out a message. Over the years, the usage of postcards has expanded due to different innovations and changing needs of people and businesses.http://www.youthedesigner.com/2012/09/03/innovative-and-creative-uses-of-postcards/

10 Creative and unique business card designs

If you are a freelance graphic or web designer, you should treat your business card like your store front. With your website, it’s one of the first things your potential clients will be visually confronted to. Try to design an elegant and memorable business card, it could bring you some new work.

A Vast Frank Lloyd Wright Archive Is Moving to New York

The Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t a hoarder. But he did save just about everything — whether a doodle on a Plaza Hotel cocktail napkin of an imagined city on Ellis Island, his earliest pencil sketch of the spiraling Guggenheim Museum or a model of Broadacre City, his utopian metropolis. Now that entire archive is moving permanently to New York in an unusual joint partnership between the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, where it will become more accessible to the public for viewing and scholarship.

Slideshow Frank Lloyd Wright's archives