The wonder of Flickr is seriously never ending. Flickr user jl.incrowd has three, count ‘em three galleries of vintage book covers that I’m just drooling over:
Cover Gallery: 1940’s Paperback Mysteries
Cover Gallery: the 1950’s and ’60’s
Nostalgia for the Scholastic Book Club, circa ’60’s & ’70’s
Please, Flickr, stop. I can’t take any more fantasticness.
I think these Battlestar Galactica propaganda-style posters designed by Quantum Mechanix are a really fantastic example of smart licensing. Whereas most of attempts to do this kind of thing are foiled by brand managers who insist on slapping a huge logo right where it doesn’t belong (hello Napoleon Dynamite’s “Vote for Pedro” tees), these demonstrate what [...]
Here’s yet another awesome Flickr pool. Do they ever end? This one’s called “I Love My Electric Appliance!” and is full of fantastic vintage advertising reference that’s just ripe for “homage.”
Flickr user bigdaddyhame has posted an unbelievable set of vintage travel posters from the 50’s and 60’s:
I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950’s and 1960’s. There are some real gems in here!
I’ve done my best to identify them however quite a number are in [...]
