Illustration: How Calcium Saved My Life
Illustration by William Reusswig found at Today's Inspiration.
Poster Art: Call Girl
Girl of the Night aka Call Girl, 1960,
Dir: Joseph Cates,
Swedish poster,
Poster artist: Gösta Åberg
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Illustration: 30 Ways to Die of Electrocution
30 Ways to Die of Electrocution
"Here are 30 illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern. These diagrams outline causes of electrical accidents." From bre pettis' Flickr. (Blog). And, no, it's no joke. It's from a 1931 illustrated German or Austrian book on electric safety.
Via WFMU's Beware of the Blog
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MGMT - Electric Feel
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Music: Peter Wyngarde - April
Peter Wyngarde - or Jason King if you will - wants to "sing" April for you and you'll find him in the sidebar. Under "Listen" you'll find my little April playlist. Enjoy.
Image was found here
Album Covers: Lille Gerhard
The top two (EP) covers, made by Ulf Gustafsson, were found at LP Cover Lover and the bottom one at Farbror Sid.
"Lille Gerhard", who also called himself "Little Gerhard" when he sang in English, was one of the first Swedish "rock" singers in the 50s. Listen to Lille Gerhard at Sid's!
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Vintage Comics: "NO!"
Another great vintage comic panel from Johan Urban's Gubblogg. Check it out for more goodness and watch out for the Brain-bat!
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Vintage: Danish 70s Interior Design Porno Style
Let's take a look what's beyond, behind and beneath the flesh in Danish porn magazines of the 70s. Behold and be amazed by the crazy wallpapers, the psychadelic posters, the colorful carpets, the furniture, lamps and crazy kitsch accessories.
Musselsoppans Vänner: Danish 70s Interior Design Porno Style
By the way, I'd say it's "safe for work".
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Illustration: Olle Eksell, part 5
Illustration by Olle Eksell, 1958. "Stickat för barn" or "Knitting for kids". How about that? Knitted swim wear.
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Olle Eksell, part 1 to...
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Book:
Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer (buy)
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Somewhat related:
"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."
20 ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers
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Arts & Craft: "Let The Right One In"
"These are custom-ordered dolls that I just finished. They are based on the two kids in the Swedish horror movie "Let the Right One In" and they're a Valentine's present."
- Little Red Fox
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Magazine Cover: FART
Yep, that's kind of funny. Fart, though, means speed in Swedish. This is a motor magazine from 1963 and the cover shows a Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, '63 in front of a Pan Am Boeing and of course in the car a couple of happy stewardesses.
The cover and the info came from motorman GrandPrix63! Pay him a visit.
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Vintage Comics: Tintin in Sweden!
"He was in Dalarna and visited Mora-Nisse..."
Sekvenskonst: Tintin!
Via The Ephemerist
Art: "How To Make An Abstract Mobile"
Dinosaurs and Robots: How To Make An Abstract Mobile
"From Popular Science Monthly, 1954"
Via Monoscope
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Geography: Old Map Detail
I just liked the look of this detail of a map of Regent's Park from 1859. Maps can be beautiful.
Found here via Things Magazine.
Illustration: David Stone Martin part 2
In his article "For the Record" about David Stone Martin in Today's Inspiration Leif Peng says "From my research on the net, it appears that DSM went on to create approximately 400 album covers!". I've posted before about that great article where you'll find some fine examples of David Stone Martin's album cover art.
Peng has also written other articles on Stone Martin making it clear that though being a very productive album cover artist Stone Martin was not only that.
- Today's Inspiration: The Art of the Inked Line: DMS
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: Early Days
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: Modernism meets Traditionalism
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: "Bending a wire"
From Leif Peng's David Stone Martin Flickr set (slightly cropped)
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Below - a few other nice places to find his work, not only record covers:
- LP CoverLover's David Stone Martin category
- Birka Jazz shows a large collection of jazz covers by David Stone Martin
- Fox Music Company's Flickr: The Art of Jazz - David Stone Martin Record Cover Art
- ArtCyclopedia links to his Covers for Time Magazine and art work made during WW2
- Vinyl Culture Quarterly has more vinyl covers
- Dawger: DAVID STONE MARTIN
- Oscar Grillo Oscartoons: David Stone Martin (a few nice drawings and covers)
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Vintage Postcards: Popcards.fr
"Popcards.fr has changed its address. We moved to http://popcardsfr.blogspot.com" says Poupi. So note this update or else she might shoot you.
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