Early cinema culture was as ephemeral as nitrate film was flammable. Traces of early film practices are hidden in print ephemera, whose recent digitization has opened the possibility of recovering ...

Every night this academic year, I fall asleep underneath a cutout of a bowl of salad layered on top of a photo of a hillock sprouting with magnificent red flowers. Above them is a bookmark of a cat ...

While most design objects need to shrink to fit onto the screen of your phone, postage stamps do not—nor do clothing labels, matchbooks, or machine badges. With car insignia, there is slight shrinkage ...

According to the history of printing, what you are now reading is “ephemera.” Newspapers are intended to be read, but not kept. After all, as the old industry saying puts it, “today’s news is tomorrow ...