It’s Wednesday, so that means ladies and germs it’s time for another installment of digital ephemera. Which is a collection of interesting bits and bytes I’ve run across on the information super highway in the past week.

Mid-century Modern & Tiki

• Retro Cocktail Hour: A great weekly radio program from Kansas Public Radio. Host Darrell Brogdon spins Ultra-Lounge, Exotica and cool mid-century tunes. Simply amazing! Mr. Brogdon has an encyclopedic knowledge of the topic and his digressions are almost as good as the tunes.
• Monsters Attack! 26 Epic Retro Horror Movie Posters

Good Design resources, tips and tricks

• 50 Powerful Timesavers for Webdesigners. A great collection of tips, graphics and other digital goodies from the lads and lasses at Smashing Magazine.
• Have designer’s block? Check out this helpful article on how to have an idea from the ever useful How Magazine blog.

Freebies

• Shameless Plug… my tree bark textures.
• Humpback Whales PhotoShop Brushes… insert Star Trek IV or Moby Dick joke here.

Illustration

• Vintage Children’s Books my Kid Loves… a fabulous blog from Burgin Streetman

Great sites worth exploring

• Harvard’s Michael Sandel’s amazing course in Moral Philosophy can be watched for free. Not  design related, but well worth checking out and investing time in this thought provoking work.

Finally something really cool: the video for the song “Cardboard Houses” by IG88 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo

. I love the archival imagery juxtaposed with the cutting edge music.

“Cardboard Houses” by IG88 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.

If you have any cool design, art, tiki or mid-century links or thoughts let me know. Leave a comment.