Shannon Coffey
@shannoncoffey.bsky.social
Devotee of the mid-century arts.
A Final Jeopardy retcon error? Novelization released in 1976 had this detail first, not the other way around.
Movie Characters | Final Jeopardy! Nov 19, 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLw...
Movie Characters | Final Jeopardy! Nov 19, 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLw...
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
A Final Jeopardy retcon error? Novelization released in 1976 had this detail first, not the other way around.
Movie Characters | Final Jeopardy! Nov 19, 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLw...
Movie Characters | Final Jeopardy! Nov 19, 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLw...
McDonald's 70s-era Good Morning coffee mug has been revived and is now available at their Golden Arches Unlimited shop
goldenarchesunlimited.com/collections/...
goldenarchesunlimited.com/collections/...
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
McDonald's 70s-era Good Morning coffee mug has been revived and is now available at their Golden Arches Unlimited shop
goldenarchesunlimited.com/collections/...
goldenarchesunlimited.com/collections/...
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Title cards for CBS ∘ Designer: Georg Olden, His designs were characterized by a bold, minimalist style that effectively conveyed the essence of various TV shows, 1950s...1960s.
November 29, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Title cards for CBS ∘ Designer: Georg Olden, His designs were characterized by a bold, minimalist style that effectively conveyed the essence of various TV shows, 1950s...1960s.
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the poster/booket idea for ‘mass transit mono’ works!
October 3, 2024 at 9:50 PM
the poster/booket idea for ‘mass transit mono’ works!
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Click for a paper mâché serotonin boost > buff.ly/dZQodYM
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Click for a paper mâché serotonin boost > buff.ly/dZQodYM
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Motorik at Monokrom
monokrom.no/fonts/motorik
"Motorik revisits the conception of the mature modernist sans-serif, the cultural climate it grew out of, and its instant ideological demise. It was designed by Frode Helland together with Inga Plönnigs and Wei Huang."
via proofco.xyz
monokrom.no/fonts/motorik
"Motorik revisits the conception of the mature modernist sans-serif, the cultural climate it grew out of, and its instant ideological demise. It was designed by Frode Helland together with Inga Plönnigs and Wei Huang."
via proofco.xyz
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Motorik at Monokrom
monokrom.no/fonts/motorik
"Motorik revisits the conception of the mature modernist sans-serif, the cultural climate it grew out of, and its instant ideological demise. It was designed by Frode Helland together with Inga Plönnigs and Wei Huang."
via proofco.xyz
monokrom.no/fonts/motorik
"Motorik revisits the conception of the mature modernist sans-serif, the cultural climate it grew out of, and its instant ideological demise. It was designed by Frode Helland together with Inga Plönnigs and Wei Huang."
via proofco.xyz
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How Fieldwork Facility created an immersive museum environment for V&A East Storehouse > buff.ly/RpZFgjM
September 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
How Fieldwork Facility created an immersive museum environment for V&A East Storehouse > buff.ly/RpZFgjM
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Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager embodied the contradictions of midcentury America. A new documentary pays tribute to her, exposing the limited — and limiting — professional options available for women of her time.
Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls
A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject.
hyperallergic.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager embodied the contradictions of midcentury America. A new documentary pays tribute to her, exposing the limited — and limiting — professional options available for women of her time.
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Sarah and Debbie Dykstra, a mother-daughter team, built a Usonian house from a long lost set of Frank Lloyd Wright plans. Tomorrow night is the big reveal! There are vintage appliances in the twee kitchen. I wrote a follow up about them for AD: www.architecturaldigest.com/story/see-fr...
September 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sarah and Debbie Dykstra, a mother-daughter team, built a Usonian house from a long lost set of Frank Lloyd Wright plans. Tomorrow night is the big reveal! There are vintage appliances in the twee kitchen. I wrote a follow up about them for AD: www.architecturaldigest.com/story/see-fr...
September 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1970s style guide for Bell System Vehicles (c. 2023)
Jason Scott (@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 4 images Well, you all heard the important news. ... the 1970s style guide for Bell System Vehicles is scanned and available for perusal. Thank you for your understanding.…
mastodon.archive.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1970s style guide for Bell System Vehicles (c. 2023)
NASA is breaking a cardinal rule of branding (c. 2023)
www.fastcompany.com/90979557/nas...
www.fastcompany.com/90979557/nas...
September 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
NASA is breaking a cardinal rule of branding (c. 2023)
www.fastcompany.com/90979557/nas...
www.fastcompany.com/90979557/nas...
look back at the wedge cars of the 60s and 70s, from lancia stratos to lamborghini countach
www.designboom.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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While writing a book on Airport Architecture, I am currently working on GEG and I can't express enough how much I love the Spokane Airport from 1958.
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#Spokane #Airports #Postcards #Aviation #Avgeek #Airplanes #Architecture @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
While writing a book on Airport Architecture, I am currently working on GEG and I can't express enough how much I love the Spokane Airport from 1958.
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#Spokane #Airports #Postcards #Aviation #Avgeek #Airplanes #Architecture @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com
Some incredible graphic design going on in this tiny recipe booklet.
Betty Crocker's Baking’s Believing
www.etsy.com/listing/1786...
Betty Crocker's Baking’s Believing
www.etsy.com/listing/1786...
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Some incredible graphic design going on in this tiny recipe booklet.
Betty Crocker's Baking’s Believing
www.etsy.com/listing/1786...
Betty Crocker's Baking’s Believing
www.etsy.com/listing/1786...
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This is a pretty big deal; Heavyweight Champ is an early predecessor to fighting games, is TTL-based (and therefore difficult to emulate) and there are no extant units that I'm aware of. All we've had is a few precious seconds of it being played from a newscast. Here's hoping it lives again soon.
The Bologna museum of coin-ops and pinball seems to have unearthed the original schematics for the early (1976) Sega coin-op Heavyweight Champ (today considered to be lost media). Using them, the game could now theoretically be rebuilt from scratch.
September 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a pretty big deal; Heavyweight Champ is an early predecessor to fighting games, is TTL-based (and therefore difficult to emulate) and there are no extant units that I'm aware of. All we've had is a few precious seconds of it being played from a newscast. Here's hoping it lives again soon.
Saarinen-designed clock tower in Columbus has been restored. (c. 2024)
First Christian Church’s clock tower, completed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen in 1942, has been restored in Columbus, Indiana
The restoration of First Christian Church’s clock tower comes after a $3 million fundraising effort.
www.archpaper.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Saarinen-designed clock tower in Columbus has been restored. (c. 2024)
Global News looks at the popularity of mid-century furniture. (c. 2019)
The obsession with mid-century furniture design, explained
If you’ve gone to a furniture store recently, you have probably come in contact with mid-century modern furniture, even if you don’t really know what that is. Furniture inspired by the designs from…
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Global News looks at the popularity of mid-century furniture. (c. 2019)
Oscar Niemeyer, Architect
"In breaking from the rectilinear grid that defined Modernist architecture Niemeyer’s work characterized by the use of reinforced concrete in organic, flowing shapes continues to influence architects throughout the late 20th and early 21st century…"
"In breaking from the rectilinear grid that defined Modernist architecture Niemeyer’s work characterized by the use of reinforced concrete in organic, flowing shapes continues to influence architects throughout the late 20th and early 21st century…"
Oscar Niemeyer: Envisioning Architecture for the People - Part II
This is the second part of a two-part post. Read part one. Brasilia In 1956 Juscelino Kubitschek became President of Brasil, soon after he asked Niemeyer to help him build a new capital for Brasil –…
design20century.blog
September 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Oscar Niemeyer, Architect
"In breaking from the rectilinear grid that defined Modernist architecture Niemeyer’s work characterized by the use of reinforced concrete in organic, flowing shapes continues to influence architects throughout the late 20th and early 21st century…"
"In breaking from the rectilinear grid that defined Modernist architecture Niemeyer’s work characterized by the use of reinforced concrete in organic, flowing shapes continues to influence architects throughout the late 20th and early 21st century…"
Images from Expo 1970 in Osaka
daniellaondesign.com/blog/expo-os...
via Design & Desire design20century.blog
daniellaondesign.com/blog/expo-os...
via Design & Desire design20century.blog
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Images from Expo 1970 in Osaka
daniellaondesign.com/blog/expo-os...
via Design & Desire design20century.blog
daniellaondesign.com/blog/expo-os...
via Design & Desire design20century.blog
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The fabulous 1935 De La Warr Pavilion; the UKs most important modernist building, designed by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff, is in a terrible state again. I went many times with my architect dad in the 70s. I remember well, it's neglect before. This is a national treasure - it needs more state funding.
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The fabulous 1935 De La Warr Pavilion; the UKs most important modernist building, designed by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff, is in a terrible state again. I went many times with my architect dad in the 70s. I remember well, it's neglect before. This is a national treasure - it needs more state funding.
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Designed in the late 1960s by Saša J. Mächtig, the K67 was mass-produced and exported, and today it's considered a classic piece of modernist industrial design.
Yugoslav Kiosk K67 | LEGO® Ideas
In my room filled with colorful bricks, I carefully put together different pieces of LEGO to build my very own version of the Kiosk K67. My creation combines bo…
beta.ideas.lego.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Designed in the late 1960s by Saša J. Mächtig, the K67 was mass-produced and exported, and today it's considered a classic piece of modernist industrial design.
Roland Miller photographs old Space Race tech. (c. 2016)
Relics of the Space Age (Published 2016)
“Abandoned in Place,” a new book of photographs by Roland Miller, finds haunting beauty in derelict launch pads, rusting towers and other detritus of the American space race.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Roland Miller photographs old Space Race tech. (c. 2016)
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The power of the triangle at the Brutalist Temple of Monte Grisa located in Trieste, Italy
Designed by Antonio Guacci (1966)
Designed by Antonio Guacci (1966)
September 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The power of the triangle at the Brutalist Temple of Monte Grisa located in Trieste, Italy
Designed by Antonio Guacci (1966)
Designed by Antonio Guacci (1966)