Posts tagged vintage
Boy resting in trash can in Gothenburg 1961 (by Stockholm Transport Museum Commons)
Gaslight Style | Sheaff : ephemera (via @typegirl)
One pronounced aspect of Victorian design was a great interest in creating the illusion of depth, particularly so with lithographers. Type, vignettes, products and design elements are made to seem multi-layered through the use of shadows, superimposition, dimensional banners and ribbons, turned-up faux page corners and choice of colors. Some have labeled this the “Gaslight Style” approach to design…Questions: How common was this style at the time? An everyday kind of thing? I wonder if it was as beautiful to the Victorian era public as it is to us now.
Ad for Kosca pens, Italy 1951.
From the Epoca archives
Kalmine pain reliever ad, Italy 1951.
“against neuralgia(?), headaches, colds, flu, toothaches”
From the Epoca archives.
Cute overload, Italian 1950s style.
From the Epoca archives.
Graphisch-statistischer Atlas der Schweiz 1914
(Graphic-statistical Atlas of Switzerland)
Prof. Michael Stoll
Mid-century signs of the LA area, photographed by Marc Shur.
Subaru 360 promotional image, 1958 (via Product Design Data Base)
Visit Palestine
“Issued by Tourist Development Assn. of Palestine”
“Printed in Palestine” (ca. 1939)
(via Boston Public Library)
My cousin Bill Dunford publishes Riding with Robots, a great site that covers the discoveries of space probes and rovers. When he was visiting me in the Bay Area we found a children’s book from 1960, just before the golden age of early space flight. It is full of predictions (some surprisingly accurate) about the future of space exploration. Bill highlights what they got right and wrong.
A peek inside the Typographica.org offices as we edit “Typefaces of 2011”. Note pile of submissions on desk.
Actually a portrait of Flora Payne Whitney via Library of Congress, ca. 1919.
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Friday Mini-Feature: Space Lego of the 80s (and late 70s).
Also known as the best Lego ever made.
Oh man, these bring back such happy memories. I used Legos from this series more than any other. Built a lot of custom Stoofstations, rovers and spaceships.
Archery is for Everyone
Ben Pearson ad in Outdoor Life, Dec. 1956
Via I Am A Friend Of The Squirrels
Carrying A Heavy Rabbit
illustration from the Girl Scout Handbook, 1947 (via IAAFOTS)
Victor L. Chandler trade card (Collection of Jonathan Bulkley) (via Sheaff : ephemera)
