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I first learned about Tyco Toys from a YouTube video on the history of Lego. Tyco Super Blocks were one of their competitors in the ’80s and the ads…

Nov 12, 2025 • Vedad Siljak

Kindred Spirits

Today’s collection is an archive of materials from the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a short-lived British youth movement founded in 1920 by John Hargrave…

Sep 10, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats. Most of these date from the late 1940s through the ’50s, when the…

Aug 11, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

Today’s collection is a series of spreads from Sinclair Programs, a short-lived magazine published between 1982 and 1985 for users of Sinclair…

Jul 25, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

Understood the Assignat

This fall, I spent several afternoons exploring the archives of the Museum of Living History in the suburbs of Paris, searching for typographic…

Jul 9, 2025 • Polina Godz

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