{"id":271,"date":"2009-03-14T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T06:04:19","slug":"dept-of-redundancy-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Dept. of Redundancy Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet repeated a posting on a particular project, but I felt I needed to do it just this once. I wanted to show off the actual cover that I designed for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=190\" target=\"_blank\">America Swings<\/a>&#8220;. I designed it to be an actual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tin_toy\" target=\"_blank\">tin-lithograph<\/a> like the toys that were produced by companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/collectibles.about.com\/od\/pricetoys\/ig\/Antique-Tin-Toys\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chein and Marx<\/a> back in the 20th Century. I was absolutely thrilled with the job that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen.com\/pages\/en\/catalogue\/sex\/all\/05704\/facts.naomi_harris_america_swings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Taschen<\/a> publishing did with fabricating and putting together this cover from the quality of the tin-lithography to the American flag background fabric. Click on the bottom image below for an even better view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings-Dimensional-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1957\" title=\"AmericaSwings-Dimensional-1\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings-Dimensional-1-600x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings-Dimensional-1-600x473.jpg 600w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings-Dimensional-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings_Dimensional-Lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1958\" title=\"AmericaSwings_Dimensional-Lg\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings_Dimensional-Lg-600x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings_Dimensional-Lg-600x473.jpg 600w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AmericaSwings_Dimensional-Lg.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet repeated a posting on a particular project, but I felt I needed to do it just this once. I wanted to show off the actual cover that I designed for &#8220;America Swings&#8220;. I designed it to be an actual tin-lithograph like the toys that were produced by companies like Chein and Marx back in the 20th Century. I was absolutely thrilled with the job that Taschen publishing did with fabricating and putting together this cover from the quality of the tin-lithography to the American flag background fabric. Click on the bottom image below for an even better view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}