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Friday Ephemera: Food

Catalog, Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman, Los Angeles [cover] Catalog, Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman, Los Angeles [back cover]

Catalog, Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman, Los Angeles [cover], California business ephemera collection, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2013.1326 [a] and [b].jpg.

food

  1. buy it with thought
  2. cook it with care
  3. serve just enough
  4. save what will keep
  5. eat what would spoil
  6. home-grown is best

don’t waste it

More on Theodore Payne here. His foundation for the preservation of California native plants remains.

Via Flickr Commons.

Friday Typography: Quadratuuralphabet

Alfabet | Alphabet

J.L.M. Lauweriks. Alphabet, [1900]. NAI Collection, LAUW 85. Via Flickr Commons.

Lauweriks was als theoreticus en praktisch kunstenaar van grote invloed op stromingen die aan het begin van de 20e eeuw opkomen, zoals de Amsterdamse School, De Stijl en Bauhaus. Hij was bovendien een belangrijke verspreider van de proportieleer of het systeemdenken.

As a theorist and an artist, Lauweriks exerted great influence on early 20th-century movements such as the Amsterdam School, De Stijl and the Bauhaus. He was also a key propagator of proportion theory and system thinking.

Meer over Lauwerks (in ‘t Nederlands) hier. English-language biography here.