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Tonight I'm headed to the 2009 MASterwork Awards. Each year, the Municipal Art Society of New York honors distinctive architecture, urban planning and preservation in NYC. This years' winners include The Standard Hotel, the Lion House at the Bronx Zoo, the new TKTS Booth and The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at The New School. Soulellis Studio created the program brochure announcing the winners, and the awards themselves.
This is a flea market find from a year ago. It's a "souvenir" book of WWII photos from the Secretary of the Navy, published by U.S. Camera (it's not dated but I'm assuming 1945). The photographs — scenes of daily life, explosions, war routines — are compiled by Edward Steichen.
From the note on page 5: "To the Officers and Men of the Navy: You are leaving the Navy which you made victorious in the greatest war in history. These pictures will go with you as a reminder of a job well done — a job of which you can be proud as long as you live because it gave mankind another opportunity to live together in peace and decency..."
The typography, imagery, icons — all amazing But it's the striking cover that I find most gorgeous and inspiring.
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