Graphic Design: Helvetica turns 50
Image from Designing With Type. Click link or the image.
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Music Video: Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Trippy 1970ish (1979) animated music video for Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
Via The Cartoonist
Blog: Biggest Part Of My Life Is Me.
Those of us who has followed Mr Peanut Butter Sandwich knows that he every once in a while gets tired of his blog and starts over in an other shape. Now he has done it again! Last time, when he closed down Earnest Little Cartoon Guy, I and several others had a hard time finding him so for all of you here's a link to the new blog: Biggest Part Of My Life Is Me.
Update: He says about the new blog "I think I wanted a blog that's a bit more personal and a bit more like a diary with links and other stuff I dig intertwined, so to speak."
PS He also says he'll keep the old blog but he won't update it.
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Blog: The Groovy Age of Horror
The Groovy Age of Horror has been doing a lot about Naziploitation (Nazi exploitation). I guess that the concept means pulp books, comics and films with a Nazi theme. Sex and violence are the other two main ingredients. Sometimes it makes pure porn with Nazis exploiting their dominating position. If this, for whatever reason, sounds interesting you know where to go.
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Record covers: ...from the thrift store
Just a few cool looking thrift store record covers. Sorry for the poor photo quality, but you get the main idea ...I think.
Poster Art: Vintage Italian Movie Posters
Vintage Italian Movie Posters from Flickr profile Italiangerry.
Via Josephzohn via Hugo
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Vintage Ads: Apelsinmarmelad etc
I've uploaded some new stuff to my Flicker page. Swedish vintage ads for instance. Perhaps you'd like to check it out.
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Music Video: Brook Benton - Mother Nature, Father Time
Yes! It's finally here. I've asked Bedazzled for it before and now at last everybody can enjoy this fantastic video. Just to make sure you'll watch it I've posted some teaser screenshots for you. But of course it doesn't even give you half an idea.
Mother Nature, Father Time was both the name of a single and an album from Brook Benton in 1965. Neither of them did very well on the charts but that's neither here nor there today. No, for today you'll see the video which is ranked #1 on my weirdo chart. Enjoy!
Watch it at YouTube or go to Bedazzled for other options.
Note: For Swedish readers I'd just like to say that I saw this at least once on the TV show Nattsudd with Svante Grundberg and Björn Wallde some time between -85 and -88 and was instantly smitten. And the sounds and images has stuck in my memory since. And now you know. Soon they will have stuck to yours.
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Movies: Film Stills
Some film stills from the classic movie Night of the Hunter found on this blog. There are much more to find over there.
Via Bedazzled!
Some more or less related posts
Movies: Hitchcockmania
Design: Steven Hill's Movie Title Screens Page
Design: Förtexter designade av Saul Bass
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Illustration: T. S. Sullivant
Hippo: Say, Bunny, I'll toss you to see who pays for the lunch.
"T. S. Sullivant is one of the most important cartoonists in the history of the medium. He pioneered many of the elements of caricature and anthropomorphism that we now take for granted."
I reckon this should be enough for wanting to continue reading the article about T. S. Sullivant over at ASIFA.
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Illustration: Dick Bruna
The World Of Kane has an article about the Dutch illustrator and graphic designer Dick Bruna, mostly known for his minimalistic children's books about Miffy. Here and in this vast gallery you'll however find other book cover designs of his hand. Visit The World Of Kane for more links and info.
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Animation: Winnie the Pooh in the Soviet Union
A year ago I uploaded a few snippets of the Soviet made Winnie the Pooh which I thought were truly delightful. And now I'm happy to say that YouTube signature kuba0000 has done the good deed of uploading full episodes in 4 parts. They were made in 1969-1972 by the acclaimed film company Soyuzmultfilm, known for a number of celebrated animations like the series about Cheburashka and short films like Hedgehog In The Fog and The Heron and the Crane (Watch them at Videos With Bibi!).
For your convenience I have collected the Soviet-made Winnie-the-Pooh-episodes into one playlist. (see below). I found them through this article in the blog Think In Pictures where the image of Pooh is discussed. For me Pooh has many faces; I love the originals from the book made by Englishman E H Shepherd, however one can't deny that the Disney version exists in one's conscience but now they have both been joined by the fresh images of the Soviet Pooh. I hope you too will enjoy him, although there are no subtitles. You probably know the stories well-enough to follow. Follow?
PS. You'd better hurry watching it. You never know for how long it'll be available!
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Blog: The Art of Finding
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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Art: Mud muse
Mud muse by Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) at The Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. This is not a part of the current Rauschenberg exhibition - Combines - but a part of the museums collection.
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Children's books: Once again, Father is inserted into the kitchen
(1963 on left, 1991 on right)
"Once again, Father is inserted into the kitchen.
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, 1963 vs 1991 editions (with revisions). The 1963 edition is my own, bought for me in the late 60's when I was a toddler, and read to tatters. The 1991 edition belongs to my kids today. I was so familiar with the older one that I immediately started noticing a few differences, and so have catalogued 10 of the more interesting differences here in this collection." writes Flickr signature kokogiak
Here's where you'll find the rest of the images: Best Word Book Ever (Flickr set)
The idea for this very suitable post on International Women's Day (link) came from Julie and Children's Illustration. Visit her post for a couple more related images.
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Magazines: 6.000 indexed fiction magazines
These nice magazine covers and much much more are to be found at this index of over 6,000 fiction magazines. How about that barely clothed pancake slinging lady for International Women's Day?? Are they still out there or have our societies moved on?
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Design: Disappearing art of handpainted signs
Surisigns.org - The disappearing art of handpainted signs in Surinam
Via Josephzohn
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