SHUFFLE the street. That is what I have done with these four images.  A couple of pictures taken on the same spot form together a new reality. The camera clicked in Paris, New York, Singapore and Brussels.

SOME birds sit in cages, some in glass domes. Like these ones on display below. The glass domes date from the Victorian era. In those days naturalist roamed the earth to catch exotic and colorful birds. After the taxidermist did his work it was the mantelpiece for the birds.

OLIVETTI sure knew how to hire talent. Giovanni Pintori made some nice work, but this time it’s an advertisement from Enzo Mari. The Italian designer had a wide horizon. He illustrated children’s books, but also designed furniture and puzzles. It is said he once spent one year thinking how to create the perfect ashtray (He smoked two packs a day). The pattern of the ad looks a bit like when you repetitively hit one key on a typewriter. The poster measured 139 by 23 centimeters and was printed in the late sixties.

FEBRUARY is a grim month. Winter is settled in our system and spring is still far away. In March you have days that give hope. You can feel the change of seasons in the air. But such days don’t exist in February. Be prepared for grey skies, rain and wet snow. But, as Steinbeck once said, ‘What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness’. The first picture shows the Snake River in the Grand Teton National Park in the United States. Ansel Adams took the photo. After that there is the shot of a building in Milan by photographer Max Natkiel. Bill Brandt made the last one of Top Withens. ........................................................ ........................................................

FEW people know that when Caesar crossed the river Rubicon he was backed up by a F-16 squadron. He just didn’t inform the Senate, that’s why it was forgotten by history. This page was part of brochure to promote paper from the company Zanders Feinpapiere. The design studio Graphic Team made the paper promotion in the late sixties.

BALI and Hawaii are both prime surf destinations. Countless perfect waves have broken on the shores of the two islands. But in 1972, when these posters for Pan American World Airlines were printed, Bali was only known to handful of surfers for its supreme conditions. The advertisements are the work of graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar.

THE person who made the layout for these first pages of the Penrose Annual Volume 19 from 1966 was not afraid to use white space. The Penrose Annual was a London-based review of graphic arts published by Lund Humphries. The annual wrote about the artistic aspects of design but also on the technical aspects of printing. The last Penrose Annual hit the shelves in 1982. See more pages from volume 19 here.

SALESMEN sell with their smiles. Also body language, like making a peace sign or giving the thumbs up, can be used to win the trust of a potential client. These two characters use both. Their work is to promote office automation equipment for the Japanese company Fujitsu. The drawings were made in 1985 in Tokyo by graphic designer Takao Yoguchi.

THESE old Penguin paperbacks were published in the late thirties. In those days genres were distinguished from each other by color. Mystery & Crime, for instance, had a green cover. Travel & Adventures used magenta and orange was reserved for Fiction.

IF Mahatma Gandhi was a cabbie in New Delhi before he stood up against the British he probably never came up with the strategy of non-violence resistance. Because driving through a busy metropolis all day takes its toll. It doesn’t matter how peaceful a cab driver is, somewhere during his shift he gets frustrated by other motorist or nagging costumers. Magnum photographer Costa Manos took in 1961 these slides of a New York taxicab driver that surely had enough.