Showing posts with label matchbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matchbox. Show all posts

September 16, 2008

Ephemera: Animal Alphabet Matchboxes



Fosforos Del Pirineo - Abccdario Animal (Animal Alphabet), Spain (1970s?) - matchboxes designed by Jose Maria Cruz Novillo + Olmos.
at Grain edit

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September 5, 2008

Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels


There's something special
about the graphic design of vintage Japanese matchboxes. These examples are from wackystuff's Flickr set called Cool Factor 5 (Matches).
Maraid has even more: japanese matchbox labels
Take a look at my old post too: Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels

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April 26, 2008

Ephemera: Are you a Tiki fan?

If you are - like the eminent MrBaliHai of Eye of the Goof - a Tiki* fan, you will surely love Arkiva Tropika which is loaded with great Tiki ephemera like beautiful menus, place mats, postcards and match covers from different Tiki restaurants, bars, hotels and clubs...

Aloha!




* "Tiki culture in the United States began in 1934 with the opening of Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in Hollywood. The proprietor was Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a young man from Louisiana who had sailed throughout the South Pacific; later he legally changed his name to Donn Beach..." (continue reading the Wikipedia article)


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May 21, 2006

Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels










No, this is not my own collection. Well, that is I have collected them, from the internet. I found them in October last year and I published them here and in Musselsoppans Vänner at the time. I just think they are extraordinarily beautiful and I was sad to see that the original link to them were dead. There were many more there but I'm glad I saved this many. Enjoy.

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November 19, 2005

October 25, 2005

Design: Japanese matchboxes




















Japanese matchboxes (original link is obsolete - but click here for more images from that site)
Even more, but only with elephant motives.

There's a connection with the last post. What is it?

Via Jaf Project

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September 23, 2005

Matchbox Packaging - a photoset on Flickr

Wow! This really takes me back even if it was my brother who was building the stuff.

Matchbox Packaging - a photoset on Flickr




Via NIBLOG

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