Photo, Film & Sound Ephemera by Maraid on Flickr
Also check out the other great sets by Maraid - like the matchbox labels which I've posted about earlier and the newly added abandoned paper mill photos...
There is a blog too.
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Visit Roadesidepicture's great photo collection of vintage consumer goods packages called Advertising.
Via the ever attentive Alessandro D'Agnano of FreeDance. Mille Grazie!
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A collection of Cigarette packs from the USSR.
Via Look At This...
Earlier tobacco related posts
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Just a few cool looking thrift store record covers. Sorry for the poor photo quality, but you get the main idea ...I think.
I happened to stumble upon a bunch of blogs about thrift store findings. Probably a semi-conscious stumble as this, to some degree, is a hobby of my own. The blog called The Art of Finding made by "an artist and a mother and a professional level thrift shopper" was one of the better. For instance, in one post she writes about finding a bunch of binders - one for each year, 1961 and throughout the eighties - and how you can see the design change with time.
The photo is from one of the binders. What year? Around 1970 I guess.
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Surisigns.org - The disappearing art of handpainted signs in Surinam
Via Josephzohn
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What's your favourite casino carpet?
Casino carpet gallery
Via All About Nothing
Ugly Buttons from 1967
"There are 24 buttons in this series. 11 were designed and painted by Norman Saunders and 13 were designed by Wally Wood and painted by an unknown artist." normansaunders.com
BoxOfApples :: Fruit Crate Label Art
...and more of the same.
Via Bibi
"Stig Lindberg's (1916-1982) designs for household items – notably ceramics – are familiar to almost all Swedes, as are his illustrations to popular children’s books. The exhibition gives a picture of Stig Lindberg's work as an industrial designer during the latter half of the 20th century."
Stig Lindberg Exhibition at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm
A nice photo display of some of his works.
Mexico '68
Olympic Games Pictograms 1964 to 2008
Olympic Games Posters
I just heard on the radio that Swedish designer Nils Erik "Nisse" Strinning has died at the age of 88. He was, among other things, the man behind the best-selling String bookshelf.
"Certain things are so closely associated with a particular time that they become timeless. There is no better example of this than the String shelf system designed by Nisse Strinning in 1949." (from the String site)
String ad from 1958.
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