Casual Archivist
Elizabeth GoodspeedAn occasional newsletter of found imagery & ephemera from Elizabeth Goodspeed.
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Poetic Justice
Today’s collection is a set of Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s (thanks to chart-maker and -enthusiast Juweek Adolphe of , wh...
One Small Step for Advertising
About twice a year my local library has a book sale, which is put on by a group of chatty octogenarians (plus one sprightly fifty year old who accepts Venmo). While most inventory is exactly what you’d expect—outdated Rick Steves guides, mi...
All Aboard!
Today’s guest issue is from Vedad Siljak, a type designer running Chill Type from Salzburg, Austria, as well as a fellow archive enthusiast who discovered a treasure trove of toy catalogs.
I first learned about Tyco Toys from a YouT...
Kindred Spirits
This issue of Casual Archivist was made in collaboration with New York creative studio Mythology, who are currently at work on a new project about the unruly history of what we call “branding”—not logos exactly, but the ways that symbols, r...
Order Up
Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats. Like so many past ephemera finds I’ve shared here, I bought these at Brimfield Flea this July from a vendor who had around 500 in a big plastic tub. I bough...
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Elizabeth Goodspeed is an independent designer, art director, and writer specializing in branding, packaging, book and editorial design. She's also the US editor-at-large for It's Nice That.
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