Evenings on the lake

356 Porsche Factory Supplier Ads

Continuing with the automobilia theme today, here is a really nice collection of advertisements from parts suppliers to the automaker Porsche.   

Link: 356 Porsche Factory Supplier Ads.

Automobile Interiors (a short visual history)

Here is an interesting Finnish(?) website dedicated to documenting automobile interiors from the 70's through the the 90's.  Fairly eurocentric in its scope but nevertheless fascinating as a record of design logic and aesthetics over the decades.

(Via: thingsmagazine)

Link: Kuvia henkil�autojen sisustuksista.

Coffe Cup Lids

Here is Phil Patton's rather extensive (one might say obsessive) exploration of the aesthetics and history of that most prosaic of inventions: the disposable coffee cup lid. 

Link: Coffee Lids, by Phil Patton.

Via Thingsmagazine, of course.