1950s thriller posters.

In the Ransom Center Magazine, Ash Kinney D'Harcourt looks at the design of some 1950s film posters, including for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (with Cary Grant, 1959) and Ken Hughes's Case of the Red Monkey (aka Little Red Monkey, with Richard Conte, 1955).

Mapping Sherlock Holmes.

Violet Smith pursued in "The
Solitary Cyclist." Detail from
the Sherlock Holmes
Mystery Map (1987).

One of the treasures accessible online via Recollection Wisconsin is the "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Map" (1987) created by Jim Wolnick and Susan Lewis and published by Aaron Blake Publishers. Complete with a "Dancing Men" border, it provides a visual guide to 130 locales in the Holmes canon.

New year's resolutions from 1904.

Yale's Room 26, Cabinet of Curiosities features some examples of elegant typography from turn-of-the-century Chicago firm P. C. Darrow, including some tongue-in-cheek new year's resolutions from 1904, including "Resolved—that if my friend loses on a horse race I will weep with him—while inwardly rejoicing that I missed being 'tipped.'"