Vintage Cars: Automodule
Retro Futurism: Automodule by Jean-Pierre Ponthieu
First came the "Pussycar" and then came the "Automodule" - a car for the future.
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Jingles: Swing the Jingle
4 jingles for a well-known soft drink label.
Revenant Glint: Swing the Jingle
Lesley Gore
Books: Nice Backs
Backs of books can be great. I know this photo I took today in a secondhand bookshop/thrift store/antique store is a bit out of focus but I still wanted to show it to you. It is a Swedish encyclopedia of animals called Djurens värld ("The World of Animals") and it was printed in 1963 or -64 if I remember correctly. Sadly I couldn't find out who designed it, but it would make anyone's library look nicer.
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Update: I went back and took a few more photos, put them together:
click for larger image
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Art: Schnackenberg
Painting by the German artist Walter Schnackenberg (1880 - 1961)
More information about and images by this forgotten German artist at A Journey Round My Skull
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Vintage Photos: Jack's Saloon
"Jack's Saloon", 1940's from Vintage Photo. Anyone have any information about this photo? Update: I guess this might be relevant.
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Blog: Quad Royal
Tom Eckersley illustrates lithographic colour printing
A great Eckersley nicked from a great new place called Quad Royal - a blog about (mainly British) posters and graphics (from the 40s, 50s and sometimes 60s).
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Art: Tim Lahan
Chillin' by Tim LahanMeathaus: Tim Lahan Art
"His art/design studio is Trademark Trademark and his Flickr collection is here."
Check it out!
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Book Covers: Olle Eksell
Swedish edition of the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Cover by Olle Eksell, 1952A few new additions to my Olle Eksell set on Flickr...
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Earlier posts on Olle Eksell
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Magazine Covers: Bandy
Swedish magazine Rekord from 1957"A "bandy briefcase" is the classic accessory for spectating - it is typically made of brown leather, well worn and contain a warm drink in a thermos and/or a bottle of liquor. Bandy is most often played at outdoor arenas during winter time, so the need for spectators to carry flask or thermoses of 'warming' liquid is a natural effect."
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MrJ knows everything worth knowing about bandy, it isn't much and he only knows it in Swedish.
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Ephemera: Golden Helmet
Agence eureka: Etiquettes d'allumettes (divers pays)
Pillpat's uploaded collection of match box lables so far: Allumettes mix.
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Book Covers: Robert Houdin
"Les 400 coups. Le Seuil. 1952. Alain Sergent." (back cover)
Deadlicious: Le roi des prestidigitateurs - Robert Houdin
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Book Illustrations: The Raven
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Illustration to E A Poe's "The Raven" done by Édouard Manet 1875.
More ravens and other black birdies at Animalarium.
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Architecture: UFO in the Suburbs
In the 50s this UFO landed and stuck in between two buildings in the Stockholm suburb Råcksta. Photo by Libby who runs the blog Femtiotalsjakten (my translation: "In Search of the 50s") - it's in Swedish but you might like it just the same...
Femtiotalsjakten: Råcksta - i skuggan av Vällingby
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Poster Art: BR
Via Coudal Partners I found the Old Railway Posters Flickr pool and these nice British Railways posters from, I guess, the 50s or possibly the 60s. For better or for worse I've done some retouching just to clean them up a bit. If anyone has the information on who made them and when, I'm interested... (Update 1: we have the information on the bottom poster - see below it - thanks to the very helpful Kickcan & Conkers. I wouldn't be surprised if the top one was made by the same artist in the same year.// Update 2: Crownfolio of the Quad Royal blog has found the information about the top poster - see below it. Thank you!!)
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Poster Art: DSB
DSB (originally an abbreviation of Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways))
1937 (c) Aage Rasmussen/billedkunst.dk
1937 (c) Aage Rasmussen/billedkunst.dk
K Forum: Kanon reklame-kanon
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