The Rise of Ladybird Women in Fashion
The fashion industry has always been a platform for self-expression and creativity, pushing the boundaries of societal norms.
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Blue Willow AI Imagines Retro Leading Lady Posters
The Discord user’s prompt asked the AI to imagine a 1940’s style leading lady poster.
Broom Magazine 10 Vintage Covers
Broom Magazine was a revolutionary publication that changed the art world in the early 1920s. It provided an outlet for avant-garde art movements and helped to spread their ideas across Europe. The magazine was founded by Enrico Prampolini, who wanted to create a platform for artists to share their work […]
Top Ten Jugend Vintage Magazine Covers from 1896
Here’s my top ten Jugend vintage magazine covers from its first year of publication in 1896. Jugend, meaning ‘Youth’, was a German art magazine that with its variety of front cover styles and being loaded with illustrations, led the way for Germany’s Art Nouveau artists. It’s amazing to think that […]
Color Variations of The Poster by Elisha Brown Bird
I was working on vectorizing this lovely poster when I went down a rabbit hole of color variations. Most worthy of Alice in Wonderland! “The Poster: Miss Art and Miss Litho” by Elisha Brown Bird, March 1896.
Noma Bar Meets Haruki Murakami
For Haruki Murakami’s 2017 Assassinio del Commendatore Noma Bar created these lovely graphic illustrations in his inimitable style.
Orange Wrappers Papiers d’Orange Carta d’Agrumi
Here is a small selection of orange wrappers from a collection of over 1200 by Flickr user hier houd ik van and as he says ‘more important, the collection of my father-in-law from the fifties and sixties’. Really nice stuff.
Steve Frykholm’s Picnic Posters
Steve Frykholm’s first assignment on his new job at Herman Miller was to make a poster for the company picnic. The rest is history as they say. I was curious to see if there was one for 2020 and what imagery it used but no dice. In an interview for […]
20 Cigarette Rolling Paper Posters From 1889-1924
Setting the tone for this post with a poster by Jules Chéret (1836-1932) advertising Job Cigarette Papers. You could say he was the Godfather of stone litho printing as a ‘pop’ phenomenon and just seeing his work demonstrates the influence it had on younger artists in Paris of the late […]
Art Deco Modiano Cigarette Posters
Founded by Saul Modiano in Trieste, Modiano made and marketed cigarette papers. I think of the art deco cigarette posters first when I hear the name Modiano.