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Meat Purses and more by ROMMYDEBOMMY

Creative, Design, Europe, Fashion, Food, Puppies and Flowers, Sculpture Clutches, Fashion Accessory, Hand Bags, Purses, Raw Meat Bag, ROMMYDEBOMMY

ROMMYDEBOMMY – Food themed purses ROMMYDEBOMMY is a 29-year-old artist living in Harlingen, Netherlands. She creates wacky food themed fashion accessories. Her Raw Meat and the Supermarket Chicken purses first caught my eye and reminded me of that salami meat dress from years ago. There are four main categories you […]

Orange Wrappers Papiers d’Orange Carta d’Agrumi

Design, Europe, Food, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Vintage carta d'agrum, Food Packaging, Italy, Morocco, orange wrappers, Oranges, papiers d'orange, Spain, vintage fruit wrappers

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.

Art Deco Modiano Cigarette Posters

Advertising, Arts, Europe, Graphic Arts, Health, History, Illustration, Typography, Vintage Aladar Richter, Andreas Farkas, Art Deco, Cigarettes, Franz Lenhart, Italy, Lithographs, Róbert Berény, Sándor Bortnyik, Saul Modiano, Tibor Polya, Trieste, Typography, Vintage Posters, Zolton Konya

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.

Rotterdam Train Derails Onto Whale Tails Art Installation. Photo

Train Rails and Whale Tails

Europe, Health, Hmmn Interesting, Mechanical, Photography, PSA, Sculpture, Urban Art, Weird News Art Installation, Crisis Averted, Freak, Good News, Lucky Escape, Maarten Struijs, Metro, Rotterdam, Trains, USA Election 2020, Whale Tails, whales

A Dutch train driver was saved by an art installation of two giant whale tails after the engine crashed through the end safety barrier.

Noel Fielding as Cakes

Alcohol, Comedy, Creative, Design, Fashion, Food, Funny, PSA, TV, Urban Art Cakes, Colors, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, GBBO, Jane Fonda, Mashup, Noel Fielding, Threads, twitter, Twitter Art

What, cakes you say? Sure. Why not. The Mighty Boosh was a pretty surreal comedy series and these days he’s a host on the Great British Bake Off, a show with contestants and cakes. However Noel Fielding as Cakes is only one in a of series celebrity personification threads, the […]

Okay Ray, We Got A New Drummer

California, Comedy, Funny, Health, Music, Video, Words etc Advertising, Comedian, Copywriter, Funny Video, Lyrics, Ray Connelly, Stand-Up Comedy, Words etc.

The lyrics are pretty funny on this new music video from Okay Ray. Ray is a talented copywriter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I guess working and raising two toddlers leaves him lots of spare time for his standup comedy and song writing!

20 Vintage Apple Crate Labels From the Pacific North West

Advertising, Design, Food, Graphic Arts, History, Illustration, Typography Advertising, Apple Crates, British Columbia, Bulman Bros, Ephemera, F.C. Smith Litho, Labels, Print, Vintage, Washington State

This collection of apple crate labels come from the Pacific North West, Washington State and British Columbia. These date from around the 1920s to 1930s and judging from the amount and variety it looks like it was a golden age for the fruit box label.

Pothole Tile Mosaics Guerilla Art

Advertising, Creative, Health, Religion, Urban Art Chicago, Guerilla Art, Jim Bachor, Mosaics, NYC, Pop Art, Potholes, Tiles, Urban Art

The first time I saw this Purell mosaic, apart from liking it instantly, I was curious about its story. Was it pandemic guerilla marketing for Purell? What was the tie-in with the potholes? Well, it turns out they are the work of Chicago artist Jim Bachor who has been filling […]