Blog: illuopa




"This is my private collection of German illustration and design before 1980" says Patrick Wirbeleit about his wonderful blog illuopa.

Via DRAWN!
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Vintage Hotels: Gyllene Uttern



Gyllene Uttern - "The Golden Otter" - in southern Sweden was originally built as a roadside café in 1932 but the castle-like building was added within a few years. It is now mainly a hotel and restaurant. I haven't passed it in many years but it is supposed to look very much the same as when the German Nazi flag was up for German visitors (4th image).

Gyllene Uttern (Swedish Wikipedia)

Wild Strawberries
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Thanks to Johnny and SVT for image #1
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Vintage Comics: Feisty Gals


Images from: Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Smash Comics #48 ~ Nov/1943, Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Manhunt #13(A-1 #63) ~ 1952

Vintage Ads: It begins with a B and ends with an O


BINGO!

Vintage Ads: Lifebuoy (1942)
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Vintage Illustration: Lost?


BibliOdyssey: The Coral Book
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Paul Rand

Cover design by Paul Rand.


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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Children's Books: Livres scolaires, part 2

""La ronde des nombres" méthode de calcul -CP-(illustrations de M.T. Aberdam) 1956"

livres scolaires
a set on Flickr by pillpat (Agence eureka)
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Art: Camilla Engman

Published with kind permission of the artist. Nice doggy!

"Earth" by Camilla Engman.
Camilla's Flickr
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