Incredible Secret Night Shift Knowledge

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Incredible Secret Knowledge—There is no Night Shift

This advertisement for The Night Shift promises "Incredible Secret Knowledge."

While perusing through one of the many beautiful type specimens at the International Printing Museum, a looseleaf page advertising “incredible, logic-defying, outrageous secret knowledge” fell out unexpectedly1. Seems that there may have been a Night Shift long ago.

  1. Seriously, though, if anyone knows of a film studio or prop house looking for an obsessive level of realism in fake, period documents, please get in touch. [↩]

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5 Responses to “Incredible Secret Night Shift Knowledge”

  1. Karen September 7, 2011 at 7:57 am #

    How cool….do you guys ever sleep?

  2. david September 7, 2011 at 8:08 am #

    HAH! Love it! perhaps these should be stashed in old design books in libraries throughout LA

  3. Josh Korwin September 7, 2011 at 8:10 am #

    Dang, that’d be cool. Maybe we can get an army of type nerds to distribute…

  4. greg September 7, 2011 at 8:54 am #

    heh heh… looks great!…and david… it can be done…

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