Casual Archivist
An occasional newsletter of found imagery & ephemera from Elizabeth Goodspeed.
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All Wired Up (opens the original)
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One of the more surreal things about getting older is that design made in my lifetime has slowly become design history. Seeing this happen has inevitably begun to affect the way I think about collecting design history. I scour eBay for—now-historic!—Delia’s catalogs and American Girl Doll books. I show copies of Lucky Peach, Oriental Trading, and <a href="https://i.redd.it/re00hkto0qee1.j
Spine-Tingling (opens the original)
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I’ve always had a soft spot for design made by non-designers. When I tell people this, they usually think I’m talking about punk flyers, or the kind of sweetly naive drawings of fruit that one might find in a church cookbook. While I do love both of these things, and other things like them, this is not what I’m talking about when I say “design made by non-designers.” What I have in mind is far more banal—something closer to visual debris, the less-than-ephemera produced by ordinary people during
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