Gone are the days when curating was reserved for those academic art experts. Thanks to the web, there’s now endless websites dedicated to collecting the weird and wonderful.
I want to point your attention to a website I came across where you can browse websites that feature collections/archives of anything and everything.

Here’s a few of my favourites:

A collection of drug bags:
http://babylonfalling.tumblr.com/clayton_patterson_dope

Sad stuff on the street:
http://sadstuffonthestreet.com/

Some cracking postcards from the states:
http://bad-postcards.tumblr.com/

And a huge collection of cat purrs. Genius:
http://www.ronsen.org/purrfectsounds/

Check out loads more at the website of all websites:
http://www.delicious.com/MarcFischer/public_collectors?page=1

WARNING: These unique collections make a few hours pass very quickly.

Starting on the journey in Farringdon

If you’re anything like me then you’re likely to spend an inordinate amount of your life plugged into a day-dream playing inside your (cavernous) head where you’re living out an alternate reality, traveling the world, experiencing new and wonderful places every day.

Imagine my delight when a colleague showed me a new internet site that brings my day-dreams to life (well, photo imagery at least) and shows me these places up close and on my screen.

Some smart folk have developed the ultimate Google Street View hack game/application where you can shuffle randomly through the streets of cities, in countries, on every continent*. Like a Chatroulette for globetrotting geeks.

*the continents that have Google Street View (5 currently)

One minute you’re exploring the back streets of Hong Kong and in the click of a button you’re whisked off (safely in your seat) to the winding mountain roads in Spain and…..*click*……off to the long, seemingly endless, stretches of roads through Central Africa. For a day-dreaming wannabe explorer like me it’s a great way of nosing around new places without the need for jabs and a moneybelt.

It’s incredibly compelling also just for the childish excitement that, at some point, you may happen across something really unusual and stunning (or rude!).

Go on, go and have a play here…and if you do find something particularly exciting then let us know by posting it on here. Thanks.

Missouri

Hong Kong

Spain

Africa

Australia

Denmark

NatWest © The Partners 2001

River Films © The Partners 1988

MJM Creative Services © The Partners 2007

Pilotlght © The Partners 2007

Legas Delaney © The Partners 1998

Emergency Telecoms Services © The Partners 1986

City & Guilds © The Partners 1995

Chesterton © The Partners 2006

MediaedgeCIA © The Partners 2002

Rexam © The Partners 2000

The Silk Purse Company © The Partners 1986

The Good Vibration © The Partners 2009

The Connaught Hotel © The Partners 2007

Airwave Logo © The Partners 2007

Aspen Re © The Partners 2005

Tarmares Private Investment Group Logo © The Partners 2004

The B to D group © The Partners 2007

AAR Logo © The Partners 2005

The Surrey Institute of Art © The Partners 1994

ARM Investment Managers Logo © The Partners 2004

Tim Little Logo © The Partners 2001

Models 1 Logo © The Partners 1999

Powerplate Logo © The Partners 2007

QinetiQ Logo © The Partners 2001

Octagon Logo © The Partners 2001

Klein Caporn Logo © The Partners 2007

Amlin Logo © The Partners 2000

Association of Photographers Logo © The Partners 2000

Dad Club Logo © The Partners 2007

Spiegel & Grau Logo © The Partners 2006

Naked Logo © The Partners 2006

Jaguar Racing Logo © The Partners 2002

Goldsmiths Logo © The Partners 2004

Fallon & Byrne Logo © The Partners 2005

Debrett's Logo © The Partners 2005

Buzz Logo © The Partners 1999

BBC iPlayer Logo © The Partners 2006

Anglo American Logo © The Partners 1999

Ana Tzarev Logo © The Partners 2006

So here’s a starter of ten, I’ll upload new ones every week.

* Disclaimer: due to changes in the way that we have worked (some identities are pre-mac), and because the archive is a bit like a bottomless black hole, I might not be able to dig out every last one. But the goal is to have each one here.

DeBeers ©The Partners 2004

Falklands Finest ©The Partners 2003

Granada Media ©The Partners 2004

Wedgwood ©The Partners 1997

University College London ©The Partners 2004

The Queen's Award for Enterprise ©The Partners 2001

Jaguar Cars ©The Partners 2002

London Symphony Orchestra ©The Partners 2001

House of Fraser ©The Partners 2007

Gravity Flooring ©The Partners 2004

This will make anyone who works in the design industry have a little chuckle. I know where I’ll be going to get my next set of images for my moodboard…