Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts

May 16, 2009

Poster Art: Tigra


Poster - dated 1950 - for Belgian cigarette label (Royal) Tigra. From Vintage Poster.






Royal Tigre cigarette pack scans from the La Saga Cigarette site.

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April 23, 2009

Flickr: Those Swell Smoking Men


OK, so let me just be slightly politically correct and say that I do not encourage anyone to smoke ...but nor do think that we should hide the fact (see previous post) that many men used to smoked pipe in the old days. Smoking pipe was an important symbol of maturity, manliness, distinction, class, wealth, reliability etc.

Flickr group: Pipe Dreams (Those swell smoking men)
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Controversy: Ceci n'est pas une pipe!

Image: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

"...new posters for a recent Jacques Tati retrospective show the iconic Hulot without his pipe after the Paris public transport network (RATP) banned the picture, citing a 1991 law that prohibits advertising tobacco."


A drawing of Jacques Tati as Hulot (with his pipe) made by...?

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Image from pillpat (Agence eureka) showing pipe smoking in the "good ol' days".

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More pipe images at Musselsoppans Vänner: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
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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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Related: Posts with label matchboxes
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July 8, 2008

Vintage Tobacco: Adamas Cigarettes


"The most famous, and much coveted, Danish billboard is the Adamas Cigarettes billboard from 1928 made by Johs. Thejll of Copenhagen for American Tobacco Company. It was drawn by the Danish advertising illustrator Aage Lippert." says Danish billboard collector Søren Christensen at his site Emaljskilte. (Enamel porcelain coated signs)

You will find a couple of signs on this page and one here and here . Evidently the Adamas character that was created became such a success that they published books about him. However, according to Christensen, the cigarette brand never became a big hit and it seized to exist in 1942.

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January 26, 2007

Illustration: Tobacco ads & posters

You must see this outstanding collection of ads and posters for tobacco products - beautiful, crazy, sexy and sometimes sort of scary. Flickr: Photos from lamarde

More stuff
on the subject of tobacco.

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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May 20, 2006

Design: Cigarette Packs

These two sites must represent the two most extensive cigarette pack collections on the internet (am I wrong?) : DesignBoom (via Coudal Partners) and La Saga Cigarette (a repost originally via NIBLOG). They are both very impressive.

After getting some inspiration go here and generate your own cigarette pack.













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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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