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Arts, Asia, Europe, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Vintage Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva, Art Nouveau, Benois, Block Prints, Ilya Repin, Petersburg, Russia, Tolstoy, Vasily Mate, Woodcuts
Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva’s work rekindled an artistic interest in woodcuts—other than for print production. Lovely stuff. Check out 95 more pieces of her art on wikiart. I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between her monogram and the anarchist ‘logo’, coincidence? 😉 From Wikipedia article: Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (Russian: Анна […]
Americas, Events, History, Politics, PSA 2021, A Leader, Black Lives Matter, blm, Civil Rights, Coretta Scott King, Happy Birthday, January 15th, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Positivity
Happy birthday to you Martin Luther King Jr. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” —Martin Luther King Jr. I made this video in the summer of 2020 at the height […]
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.
Creative, Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Vintage 1970's, Herman Miller, Nice Graphics, Steve Frykholm, Vintage 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 […]
Advertising, Creative, Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Skills, Typography, Vintage 1890's, Abadie, Advertising, Belle Époque, Chat Noir, Chérettes, Cigarettes, Job Papers, Le Nil, Paris, pulling tubes, Rolling Papers, Skins, Tabu Papers, Vintage Posters
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 […]
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.
Arts, Fashion, Illustration, Painting Adobe Inc., Audrey Hepburn, Covaid19+, Downtime, Illustration
I say dancing but it was actually more like tripping or flirting. I’ve been working on this illustration of Audrey Hepburn over the last week.
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.
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 […]
Cool Games, Entertainment, Fraudsters, Funny, Photography, Religion Black and White, Found Photos, Nuns, Online Games, Photography, Sisters
Let’s play… Nun or None? Nun or None is a very straightforward game, all you have to do is guess whether the hidden picture will have a nun in it or not. PRO TIP: Study the small circular preview shown on each image. Watch out for fake Nuns! In the […]