Dear Zoom, How do you make a Dashiki?

... and a tree loom, cornrows, salt pendulum, marbelized paper, enchilada sauce... The answer to those and 130 more projects in 1975's Do a ZOOM do book,

in the shop!

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I ♥ My Book

Milton Glaser-esque bookplate now included with each book from or bookshop:

http://warymeyers.bigcartel.com/category/books

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Mirror, Mirror...

...mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror.
New in the shop, a sleek pair of 1980's mirrored table lamps.

Here

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Kids' Stuff and Children's Spaces

Our two favorite books on design for kids: Kids' Stuff by Geri Brin and Linda Foa (1979); and Children's Spaces by Molly and Norman McGrath (1978).  

Click the titles for their related blog posts.

One copy of each, now in our shop

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New Blue Review

Some blue things in our shop, including: 

Collection of Vintage Dansk Kobenstyle Pots and Pans, made in France.

Vintage 1989 Nike Lava Hiking Boots, for a 6 month old.

1930's Modernist Workwear Crazy Quilt

Vintage Furry Caterpillar Hand Puppet

1974 Pelican Yoga book

A print of my painting, Bear

The Wary Meyers Shop

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A giant wrench for some giant nuts

Giant Billings iron wrench from the old Biddeford Textile Mill in Biddeford, Maine.
Perfect for your industrial designer friend who needs a present.
This and some other awesome things, just added to the shop.

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77 Hot Items! Our April Fab.com vintage sale.

Including:
A vintage Ulmer Spatz ceramic pretzel flask; a vintage brass hippopotamus box (the poor man's Lalanne ); British steel spring-type book holders; and a giant sticker for Drum tobacco, which hung on my friend's sister's wall in the 70's. Also those ceramic mushrooms, the Summerjam 76 t-shirt, and a bunch more awesome stuff.
Check it out here
If you're not a Fab member here's an invite link:
http://fab.com/fg6yml

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New in the Shop

Among 15 things we just added: 

Rare 1960's Honeywell Tap-Lites,

J.B. Blunk-ish Redwood Burl Cheese Board ,

and a Koons-ian Ceramic Doggie

Please Don't Eat the Mistletoe!

The Wary Meyers Shop

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Vintage Grocery Store Window Posters, pt.2

Six of the vintage 1965 grocery store posters we had in our shop (the last three are here) beautifully framed and hanging in their new home in Australia. This is exactly how I pictured them looking, all in a group, framed in shadowboxes so their crimps and wrinkles weren't lost- like objects rather than graphics. They look awesome. (Excellent job Uri! Thanks again!)

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Shop Update

New additions to our shop include, from top:
An old Pouchinelle zig-zag style corkscrew; prints of a Story of O-style girl; a vintage velvet mushroom toadstool; a lot of Gunnar Cyren-designed plastic ware by Dansk; and a David Hockney Nichols Canyon Rd. exhibition poster, from his Retrospective at the Met, 1988.

The Wary Meyers Shop

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Wary Meyers City Posters

The first four posters from a total of 12 cities which I drew earlier this year for a travel series. As alluded to in the last post, we're super excited about these, in particular all the logotypes. Typography is a big love of ours, and when we can incorporate it into a project we're all the happier. So here are the first four. Coming soon are SF, LA, DC, and Dallas.

The posters are 19" x 24", printed on 100lb. smooth Bristol paper, signed. $55 each, in our shop

The New York poster owes a lot to the work of Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, with a little Tadanori Yokoo thrown in at the bottom. It started out as Massimo Vignelli Subway lines coming worm-like out of the apple, forming the frame, but later I changed the bottom lines to lox coming out of the bagel. But then we changed the line colors, since , although kind of funny, all-salmony didn't look that great as a border. And a lot of food worked its way in, mostly after drawing the bagel, then we had to represent the hot dog and pretzel, and all the eggplants and ugly tomatoes.

Miami's logotype is based on Ettore Sottsass' Superbox wardrobes. No relation to Miami, but it was the shortest city name and I the boxes would be nice and bold. Plus I've always wanted to make my own Superbox, modified into a monogram. The view is an artistic-licensed South Beach, with a couple Stilt houses in Biscayne Bay, the Bacardi buildings, a little Mondrian, and the ubiquitous rooftop cranes. The two curved graphics at the corners of MIAMI represent the sun, while the two at the bottom are tanned boobs, in a blue cutaway-bikini-top.

Seattle is overall a little more sci-fi/Moebius influenced. We wanted the logotype to be sort of rock n roll, and I was listening to a lot of Paul McCartney and Wings at the time (and still) which may have influenced the design.  Coincidentally Wings' big US Rock Show kicked off at the Seattle SuperDome. On the right is a giant Peep looming behind two towering onions. Probably the most accurate rendering of anything in Seattle is the outline of Mt. Rainier in the background.

London is my favorite. I love the red telephone booth type, and yet another Beatles reference in the Yellow Submarine spreading its colour along the Thames.

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The Stevie Nicks of tables, and other things....

Including, from top:

The Stevie Nicks of tables,

a 1970's David Gil Bennington fish dish,

a totally 80's Post Modern Fujimori Tea/Coffee set,

a totally Hollywood Regency pair of candle holders,

and a fantastic 1960's handmade tile lamp.

and much more!

*click here* 

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In 1985 Steve Jobs hired Paul Rand to create the identity of his new company, NeXT.

Above is a page of final logos- black boxed and pitched 28º - from Rand's presentation package. The project is showcased- with thoughts, reasoning, diagrams, and ultimate choices- in his book Design, Form, and Chaos. 

(available in our shop, as it happens.)

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New Pieces

In our shop! (click here)



And also we've marked down some things that have been hanging out too long...
                

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Coil Pots

Working on some coil pots lately (above, in the drying stage)

We have a collection of these (below) but we only ever find a good one once in a blue moon, so we thought "why not just make our own and then we'll have all the pots we'll ever need."
And of course we don't need that many, so they'll be for sale too...
(coming soon)

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The Dot and The Line

Top: fromTerence Conran's The House Book (1974)
Above- A case of Polaroid film from a yard sale last weekend.


(¯`*•.¸(¯`*•.related .•*´¯)¸.•*´¯)!

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ノルウェイの森

Norwegian chimney sweep.

 Equal parts Japanese Kanji character and modernist bird, it's one of my favorite objects in our shop.
Also it could be a model for a great spiral staircase, or very cool parking garage.

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Ram On

Actually it's a goat, hangin' out on the back of this Lopez Designs stoneware planter from 1975. This is perhaps the coolest piece of pottery I've seen in a while- so Southern California-70's. Look at that logotype!
One of the new additions to our shop.

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1882 Camille Poirier Duluth Pack Sack A1 backpack

The (supposed) Holy Grail! (of the backpack world.)  French-Canadian Camille Poirier arrived in Duluth, Minnesota in 1870, set up a leather working shop, and soon after designed this Poirier Pack Sack. Featuring new-fangled strap designs, leather-based supports, and a "tumpline" strap, which goes around your forehead in order to lessen the weight on your back. Poirier patented his design in 1882, and riveted a little brass plaque on each pack. Basically, the Poirier Pack Sack is the great-great-grandpappy of all modern backpacks.
In 1911 Poirier sold his company to the Duluth Tent & Awning Co., after which the bags were called Duluth Packs.
Incredibly rare and desirable (?), some may know the Poirier from its infamous $45,000 Ebay auction.

This particular pack above is from an estate in New Hampshire. Slightly different (totally better) compared with the ebay pack, the tumpline seems to be more in keeping with the pack's design, and it's stamped Poirier Duluth Pack Sack, A1.

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