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I'm Andrew Filer. This is my website, and it deals with, among other things, my photography and outdated graphic design (on products new and old). I have other sites, including trade.mar.cx, oddmart.com, the Municipal Water Board (a piece of web concept art), and the Holt Weekly News (the complete archives of the Holt, MN newspaper and a conceptual demonstration of software I wrote). I also have a book. If you'd like, you can email me.More
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Category Archives: Design
For less than one Stella, you can feed this hungry child
For less than the cost of a cup of coffee is a terribly awkward phrase. Consider substituting “Stella“, the name of an extremely rare $4 coin minted in 1879 and 1880. Sure, only 425 of them were made, but isn’t … Continue reading
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Five-bytecoin note
Ever wake up one morning and say “today, I’m going to design my own banknote”? Of course, we all have. But earlier this week, I decided to act on that impulse. And just last night, I printed and laser cut … Continue reading
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Hello, m’am, I’m from the Phone Company
_DSC2454.JPG, originally uploaded by metrixcreate. Duncan and I made tshirts with the “phone company” logo on them (no actual phone company has this logo, but it looks a lot like the logo of some random independent phone company in the … Continue reading
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Cola, Pylons
Soda Signs. I just about crashed my car when I saw this last night. I’ve been photographing out-of-the-way places for seven years now this month, but this is the first time I’ve seen such amazingly preserved signage. At first I … Continue reading
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Goodridge Grade A Butter
I had the pleasure of visiting the Goodridge (Minnesota) Historical Society yesterday, and I came across this beautiful butter box. Daisies are quite popular imagery with dairy products, especially butter. My favorite is a packaging company’s sample imagery for “Best … Continue reading
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Secret Crush
Orange Crush. On a walk down Bellevue Ave this sunny afternoon, I saw this Orange Crush bottle caked with mud and sitting in a flower box outside an apartment building. It feels a bit weird picking up something that seems … Continue reading
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Sovietskiy Design? (Советский дизайн?)
Balkan Foods. At a Balkan market in Fargo, I found a few pieces of Extant Design that have a definite Soviet air to them. The Zlatni Puder evokes memories of lots of late East German graphic design (which I mentioned … Continue reading
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past packaging
Shinola, Postum, Pizzaroma. Last summer I spent some time in the Hamre House at the Pennington County Historical Society’s Pioneer Village, photographing the packaging in the kitchen, pantry, and bathroom. Products range from the fairly recent Pizzaroma to Malted Milk … Continue reading
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delayed design
Faded Signs on Glass. From Gilby, ND, the ghost of the Red Owl. I think the Owl was gobbled up around 1990 by Supervalu (which just recently swallowed up Albertson’s as well). Long-gone Supervalu logos can be found in Karlstad … Continue reading
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mehr ostdeutsches design
Ostpaket. After a long and grueling trip through Deutsche Post and DHL (which are not yet, unfortunately, a completely merged organization), my Ostpaket has arrived. The Westpaket was a care package sent from the West to East, before the fall … Continue reading
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