Photo via L. Eckstein, All My Eyes
When I stumbled across this great blog All My Eyes today and spotted a post about gorgeous Argentinean bus tickets, naturally I had to keep reading. I wasn’t disappointed.
I have a personal interest in tickets; my great-grandfather Ruben Harry Helsel invented more than 45 different ticket dispensing machines between 1917 and 1958.
Photo by Angela Riechers
His Takacheck (above) is still a familiar sight anywhere people need a civilized way to take a number and wait their turn. (I wrote about my great-grandfather for a design research class taught by Steve Heller as part of SVA’s DCrit MFA program; you can see the finished book here.)