Funny how life works, after I posted Paul Rand’s business card I found this similarly minimal letterhead belonging to another genius.

Letterheady is a blog of old letterhead examples, so if you’ve ever wondered what Adolf Hitler’s letterhead looked like, wonder no more:

…let’s hope he was writing with good news. In the interests of fairness here’s Winston Churchill’s:

…and to complete the Paul Rand circle of logic, here’s an old IBM one:

…even if I do prefer Clive Sinclair’s:

An interesting site and the collection is growing. Remember, you spell stationery with an e when you mean envelopes.

Now this is nice. Film The Blanks posts abstractions of movie posters, some obvious, some less so, and invites visitors to guess the title.

The graphics are lovely and the game is a nice idea. I can’t help posting some of my favourites here, but there are loads more on the site and in the Flickr set.

You can also buy the blanks, there are posters and T-shirts. Couldn’t find out who was behind it, they prefer to remain blank…

This looks like and oldie (it’s dated 2003) but I’ve only just found it. Turn your site (or anyone else’s for that matter) into a kaleidoscope by entering the URL and sitting back to watch all the JPG images from that page mashed up for your viewing pleasure.

Here are some from this very site…

From Project Euh, there’s other nonsense on there too…

Everyone loves a psychotic supercomputer, especially when it comes with some lovely graphic design. The HAL project has opened stage 2, a beautiful letterbox website devoted to 2001’s HAL 9000 showcasing the graphic displays, typography and even providing sound clips of the killing machine’s soothing tones.

The big news is the screensaver, now you too can have HAL 9000 on your desktop or laptop. Is your webcam reading your lips? You’ll never feel safe again…

Thanks to Martin for the link, you have made me a very happy man.

God bless Obamicons. Thanks to Ben Terrett for the link, he’s got loads of them…

In the words of Ian and Alex who run The Art of the Title Sequence website: “Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?” Check out their site for examples of great typographic, illustrative and imaginatively composed film and television title sequences. You can watch them in good quality too and then stick around to discuss in a suitably highbrow fashion…

In the meantime here are some of my favourites from the site…

…the obligatory Hitchcock, this time it’s Vertigo:

The haunting typographic treat which is Alien:

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