Spotlight On: Design is Fine. History is Mine.

Meet this week’s Tumblr find: Design is Fine. History is Mine.

German history teacher, Andrea Rae Riegel led us to recognize design in the context of history— from architecture to furniture, to popular advertising that has shaped the art world. Riegel’s compilation of Tumblr images range from ancient artifacts dating all the way back to B.C/A.D times, to art produced today. And with each image documented, she provides viewers with a little history lesson.

Riegel paradoxically suggests viewers to “imagine a time with no computer but with lots of craftsmanship and creativity,” while she, herself, provides artful information through social media—and we’re glad she does.

Yahoo Style brings you our favorite finds from Riegel’s Tumblr, Design is Fine. History is Mine.

                        Formica ad with polka dots, 1960s.

Bauhaus-Postkarten | Bauhaus postcards, 1923. Bayer: Dreieck, Kreis, Quadrat. Variationen Bauhaussignet. Molnar: Budapest (167).

Egyptian interior design: Thrones, chairs, day beds, beds, tables, cabinets and miscellaneous furniture. From I monumenti dell’Egitto by Ippolito Rosellini, 1832-44. Tuscany, Italy.

Die Fläche (The surface) designs for art, posters, books and print products, 1903/4. Published by Felician Baron Myrbach, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Alfred Roller. Vienna.

Enzo Mari, tabletop Perpetual Calendar Timor, 1967. For Danese. From Domus 458,1968.

Ilio Negri, cover design for Domus magazine, 1958. Editoriale Domus, Milano.

Irving Harper, ad design for Quality of an Eames Chair, 1961. Herman Miller.

Ad for Cube Morphine, published in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, 1900.

Formica in the kitchen, 1960. Samples, late 1950s. Including the Formica boomerang pattern for countertops.