Francisco Palacios "El Puente" film poster, 1950
Antonio Martorell "Las Sillas" theater production, 1964
Antonio Martorell "La Batalla de Argelia", 1969
José Meléndez Contreras "Programa de Navidad", 1968 (I love the colors on this one!)
Luis Abraham Ortiz "Semana John Cage" concert poster, 1982

I've been meaning to blog about this book since last year! It's titled "El Cartel en Puerto Rico" by Teresa Tió. An excellent art book showing the history of poster design in Puerto Rico. Above are some of my favorites. Yet another reason why we need to bring back illustration into our advertising.

My absolutely favorite resource for fine teas is finally shipping to the US! Check out Le Palais des Thes' new website for US-bound orders. If you're an Earl Grey fan (like me), do check out their Blue of London, it's the best I've ever had.

Check out William Hundley's "w/cheeseburgers" series, some are really funny (my favorite is with the chihuahua).

The NY Times' Abstract City blog always puts a smile on my face! Above are some of my favorites. See Christoph Niemann's full post here.

In case you haven't seen these...I first heard about Coralie Bickford-Smith's designs on Design Sponge. They're so beautiful I couldn't resist not passing this along. She's a senior designer at Penguin Books and recently designed their hard-bound classics as a series. Each cover has a different pattern, using a symbol inspired from the book itself, 2 colors and a metallic finish. Each one is so unique yet clearly part of a collection. See the interview on Design Sponge here. See Coralie Bickford-Smith's website here.

This is really beautiful...it's the spatuletail hummingbird, a rare bird that lives in Peru. I saw this video on the BBC News website, it shows its mating habit. This particular hummingbird does a dance to entice the female, you have to see this!

This is a great place to browse all sorts of rare LP covers, it's a site called LP Cover Lover. Some have interesting designs and some are just hilarious and strange. Is that a whale, or is that a shark?