Vintage Photos: Les grands ballons...
See the whole series of photos at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Les grands ballons de Macy's
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Vintage Photos: Bathing Caps
Bathing Caps With Faces by Ralph Crane, 1950s
(4 photos)
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Album Covers: + - x
“Music From Mathematics” from LP Cover Lover
And don't forget to check out Cristine “Miss X” too...
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UPDATE:
Are you curious about the sound of IBM 7090 Computer - 1962 - Music from Mathematics? (thanks, anonymous reader!)
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Vintage Photos: Heja Sverige!
Photographer: Co Rentmeester, 1972, LIFE
I don't exactly know what this photo was supposed to illustrate but searching the LIFE photos for "polaroid" this was one of the results. A beautiful woman, probably Swedish, wearing a t-shirt with an image clearly Swedish. The typical red-painted Swedish cottage, the flagpole, the blue-and-yellow, trees...
This is also an image of Sweden...
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Vintage Comics: Splash
slightly cropped and adjusted panels
The Allen Bellman Splash Page Gallery
"Splash page or sometimes referred to simply as a "splash", is a full page drawing in a comic book. A splash page is often used as the first page of a story, and includes the title and credits. Splashes that are not on the first page of a story are sometimes called interior splash pages. Interior splashes may, or may not include titles and/or credits. A panel that is larger than others on the page is called a splash panel. A splash that appears across two pages of a comic book is called a "double splash" or a two-page spread. Rarely, splash pages will stretch over more than two pages; such multi-page spreads often take the form of fold-out posters." - Wikipedia
Swedish Actresses: Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
(1915-82)
"three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress." / "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil."
- Wikipedia
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Related: The Swedish Actresses series
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PS ...and no, she wasn't related to Ingmar. Now, I'm off to watch Notorious.
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(1915-82)
"three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress." / "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil."
- Wikipedia
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Related: The Swedish Actresses series
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PS ...and no, she wasn't related to Ingmar. Now, I'm off to watch Notorious.
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Ephemera: BP
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| From Martin Klasch |
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| From Martin Klasch |
I found this little BP phrasebook in an antique store the other day. Thought you might like it. The top image is the cover and the image below shows the few illustrations found inside the book.
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Sports: BP is back!
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| From Martin Klasch |
IF Brommapojkarna (BP) is back in the Swedish premiere football (soccer) league! I know this interests all of you and that you are taking notes ;)
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Children's Books: Space Alphabet
Space Alphabet - an ABC book from 1964 by by Irene Zacks. Pictures by Peter P. Plasencia.
- a set on Flickr uploaded by Ward Jenkins
via Douglas Wilson
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Graphic Design: Erik Nitsche
About our new blog header.
I want to make it perfectly clear that the original design is not by me (if anyone thought it was) but by graphic designer Erik Nitsche. It was the cover of an 1950s -1960s internal report of the defense conglomerate General Dynamics Corporation. I found it here, cropped it, removed the background, removed and changed the text and symbols. That was it. I think it looks pretty good but I wouldn't be surprised if I changed it again soon. We'll see.
I quote a quote about Nitsche found in Monoscope:
"Eric Nitsche may not be as well known today as his contemporaries, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, or Saul Bass, but he is their equal. Almost 90 years old, this Swiss born graphic designer is arguably one of the last surviving Modern design pioneers. Although he never claimed to be either a progenitor or follower of any dogma, philosophy, or style other than his own intuition, the work that earned him induction last year into the New York Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame, including the total identity for General Dynamics Corporation from 1955 to 1965 and the series of scientific, music, and world history illustrated books, which he designed and packaged during the 1960s and 1970s, fits squarely into the Modernist tradition."
- Erik Nitsche: The Reluctant Modernist by Steven Heller
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