Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Arkham Sanitarium Ephemera

The first post on Alex Kaeda's new blog features some classic era anxiety medication- smokes and a matchbook from Arkham Sanitarium. The mysterious fires of 1921, 1927, 1934, and 1937 are now more understandable.



The very talented "anniv111701" sent over links to a selection of Sanitarium business cards available on Google Docs here and here. Interactive versions that allow you to customize the entries are in the works.

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6 comments:

  1. Alex KaedaSeptember 28, 2010 at 8:50 AM

    I love the business cards!

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  2. RavenSeptember 28, 2010 at 9:38 AM

    @ anniv111701: I second Alex's opinion!

    Um, on version A, could I suggest slightly increasing the size of the small print, for legibility? Not so much that the white space in the middle disappears, but just short of that?

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  3. drjonSeptember 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    Oh, cigarettes! I did this many years ago, and will prolly update it as a PDF if there's interest, but: http://home.pacific.net.au/~drjon/morleys.html

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  4. anniv111701September 29, 2010 at 8:52 PM

    Hi Raven,

    Gee, it looked okay when I had it blown up bigger than my head...

    Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I completely agree with you, the print is waay too small & there's just too much white space...

    I sent the interactive PDFs to Oakree with your suggested changes (well, mostly; the text looked crowded when I enlarged it too much, so I split the difference and dropped the shield & title each down a bit to kill the white space - lemme know what you think.)

    Thanks again!
    Mike

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  5. RavenOctober 1, 2010 at 10:21 PM

    Thank you, Mike / anniv111701: the enlarged print on the interactive version A(2) is much more legible, yes.

    Moving the shield and title toward the center was also a very good change, I think. The whole design looks stronger now.

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2013 at 7:19 AM

    Thank you! They are great :)
    Where can I find the interactive one?

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