I’ve always had a soft spot for design made by non-designers. When I tell people this, they usually think I’m talking about punk flyers, or the kind of sweetly naive drawings of fruit that one might find in a church cookbook. While I do love both of these things—and other things like them—this is not what I am talking about when I say “design made by non-designers.”
Love this so much. I also adore design by non-desingers. A while back I started an instragram account celebrating how they have their numbers on bins in the city - www.instagram.com/brumbins
I HAVE to say this...I did my MA at the Rhode Island School of Design and started an indie food publication out of there. It's called Dhoop Magazine https://dhoopmag.com/
RISD allowed me to be a non-designer designer, and I am so, so grateful for how it has opened my mind.
I loveeee seeing these! I grew up in New England. On Sundays, we would visit an East West store in Burlington and rent a movie for the week. My dad would send me inside to tell the man behind the counter the name of the title I wanted and also the book number and page number for our account. He’d take down the appropriate black and white composition book from behind his desk and leaf through the thin pages until he found ours and wrote down the new name for the rental and cross out the one we returned. What a blast from the past to see these tapes!
Love this so much. I also adore design by non-desingers. A while back I started an instragram account celebrating how they have their numbers on bins in the city - www.instagram.com/brumbins
I HAVE to say this...I did my MA at the Rhode Island School of Design and started an indie food publication out of there. It's called Dhoop Magazine https://dhoopmag.com/
RISD allowed me to be a non-designer designer, and I am so, so grateful for how it has opened my mind.
ahh this is lovely 🖤📼 i just might have to visit RI to see this irl 🤓 who is photo credit for the vhs scans- sandy&ben? lemme know!!! ☺️
Yes it’s their scans, I link them in the photo source at the bottom if you need the credit! Please do come to RI, it’s so lovely here in the summer ❤️
Omg that stunning image at the end of the shelves with all the spines. Completely obsessed. That colour palette aloneeeeee 🤤
this may be my favorite spelling of BROQLINE nY (where I live) that I've yet seen
Love this post
I loveeee seeing these! I grew up in New England. On Sundays, we would visit an East West store in Burlington and rent a movie for the week. My dad would send me inside to tell the man behind the counter the name of the title I wanted and also the book number and page number for our account. He’d take down the appropriate black and white composition book from behind his desk and leaf through the thin pages until he found ours and wrote down the new name for the rental and cross out the one we returned. What a blast from the past to see these tapes!
Thank you for sharing this memory! I wonder where those composition books are now.
Wowwwweeee!
Great post! Your images are beautifully chosen for this.