Striking

I've always loved matchbooks. I'm really sorry restaurants don't offer them anymore, even though I know it's the smoking thing. But they're so much fun to collect, which is why I want:

this book

and


this book.

(Sorry about the crappy Amazon pictures.)

Leads in performance

Okay, it's a little bit hard to see (and I'm too lazy to tinker with the photo on a Sunday morning) but I loved this. It was set into the floor at what is now a Honda dealer - so it's a little sad, really. But check out the awesome rocket logo. Atomic age!

The songs of the fifty states

A new, major covet - the work of Frank Chimero, which I saw on bangs, a beard and ballyhoo.

Just look:





And then this is awesome - the covetable states of america. Makes me wish I lived in Colorado.

wrong DAY

Okay, I don't know how I could have missed Richard Tipping. He is clearly madly wonderful.

I saw these signs at MoMA, when I was looking for the bag I just mentioned in the previous post.

I love them. Covet them. (Especially "Wrong Day," which is just so fantastic on so many levels.)

Letters

These examples of ABC art by Grégoire Ganter are very covetable. Beautiful, fun, and unboring. And sold at Sparkability, or at least that's where I saw them.

I really like the way everything and every letter is so different, but it all hangs together so well.

And I like signs, of course. This is an easy one to covet.

And on the street...

I haven't been in the shops recently, but I am trying to keep an eye on nice stuff I see in the world, on the streets. With the aid of my new camera phone, which takes pretty decent photos.

I love movie theater marquees -- not an original statement, but hey, I'm honest. This is a rundown little place, but look at those lights!