Designer: Xie Mulian (谢幕连) 1978. Selling the fruits of a bumper harvest in a friendly manner

During the Cultural Revolution customers have to treat shop staff with respect and submission: the workers are the bosses. Now kindness and politeness from the staff towards customers are encouraged again. This poster actually was first published in 1965. It soon became obsolete - or even counterrevolutionary. Apparently the design was judged strong enough to be reprinted after so many years, and to get a new chance under new political circumstances.

via Xie Mulian - Selling the fruits of a bumper harvest in a friendly manner

c86:

Fashion from The Apple Boutique, c. 1967

The Apple Boutique was the Beatles’ first commercial venture. It opened it’s doors on December 5, 1967 … Sadly, (it) was a financial disaster and closed just 8 months after it opened. On Tuesday morning: July 30, 1968, the staff were told to give everything left in stock away - via Child of the Moon

(via TIWI Designs: Aboriginal screenprinted fabric. > Hogarth Galleries [2] (5 February 1982 - 16 February 1982))

Poster by Raymond John Young, 1982. Tiwi design.

atallyn:gastrogirl:

lemon poppyseed cupcakes with lemon curd filling and blueberry frosting.

this felt lion coat by Molly Goodall (via kids clothes | threetwentyeight)

eldest boy and wifey are having a baby. better than even usual news since it has been a year of miscarriages, more natural disasters, some murders etc. Now I’ll be a grand [step-lesbian-dad] mother?

hugely enthused about making a tonne of baby stuff - the useful traditional stuff + more importantly awesome costumes and crap bub won’t appreciate but mum will get a laugh out of. because this is really the true divine purpose of babies existing.

(via What Julia Ate: Tangelo Lemongrass Jelly)

I came across this looking for lemongrass jelly recipes. Didn’t plant tangelo’s this year, but peppercorn cordial? This I must look into .

Summer! (by A Girl Next door)

sometimes white people on tumblr suck. a lot of people i like here are being subject to a lot of stress for that reason.

white people: the racist murder of a boy demands empathy, support, action. it demands questioning the state of white beliefs, prejudices, fears and police forces that allow paranoid whites to carry guns around civilian Black youth despite the ongoing murder by the state rate that results. 

it is not the place, at all, to make it about whether you are being affirmed as a white acquaintance, or troll, of POC.

I see an awful lot of “this is not racist, but I am a white person who has a lot of relationships with Black people and sometimes hey I DON’T KNOW if you like me, IS THIS ABOUT ME ME ME” posts on tumblr.

It’s weird, because racism here in Oz is so bad that even people in inter-racial relationships don’t usually talk much publicly. And I don’t want to be that non-USA white person who finger points at USA manifestations of white supremism to avoid the conflicts at home.

But. All this sh*t about, I AM IN GOOD RELATIONSHIPS OR ALLIANCES WITH BLACK PEOPLE, so back to MY WHITENESS MY WHITENESS MY WHITENESS.

I doubt that. Cos if that was true, you would be to busy being sidelined by the fact of another murder of an innocent boy, and fears of when/if it could be perpetrated against the Black people you love, to be making it about whiteness and bullsh*t right now.

fyeahwomenartists:

Natsumi Hayashi
Today’s Levitation 05.22.2011

(via BOOKTRYST: Australian Library’s Exhibit Is Unbearably Cute)

this is one of the books i learnt to read on.  i really identified with the opening section of the 1st book, where Blinkys’ tree home is threatened by ‘mean’ land clearing, he wears overalls, always is in trouble and runs away from his parochial home in search of adventure. in retrospect that’s embarrassing, but i was like 4.

Professional book binder Abby Seymour and Jewelry artist Katherine Wheeler create beautiful pieces for their line Golden Ink.

cartermagazine:

Today In History

‘Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, opened her historic campaign for President on this date January 25, 1972.’

(photo: Shirley Chisholm) - CARTER Magazine

Without wanting to trivialize the political boldness of Chisholm in campaigning for President, I’ll just state that, she also had such massive style.

via Postcards from Europe « Curated Place

Isabel Greenberg’s work for Postcards from Europe, a pan-European art project.