Category Archives: Vintage

candy stripe girls

By diana | Published: 12/03/2010

hot vintage ladies in cool striped swimwear. enough said.

Posted in Vintage | Tagged bikinis, pin up girls, pin-up postcards, swimwear, Vintage, vintage ladies, vintage postcards | Leave a comment

shorpy is one of those sites i should have discovered years ago, but instead only found in the past month via this via that via this via some other site i forget. anyway i’m glad i did because these vintage images are quality. and when i say quality, i mean HIGH quality.

Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. Most were digitized by LOC contractors using a Sinar studio back. They are adjusted for contrast and color in Photoshop before… Read the rest

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hilda grahnat

By diana | Published: 09/03/2010

I am a 22 year old graphic design student, born and raised in the dark forests of Sweden. I take pictures to remember, to preserve a passing moment and to distinguish interesting details from their otherwise average surroundings. I love traveling and take my best pictures when I travel. I have a fondness for all things vintage, typography and morning light. I have spent most of my life thinking I cannot draw. I am not yet convinced of the contrary, but at least now I am trying.

well said, hilda. her vintage items styled by colour are a dream…

Also posted in Photography | Tagged blog, collecting, collectionr, collections, colour, ephemera, grouping, organising, personal blog, sorted by colour, styling, Vintage | Leave a comment

persephone classics

By diana | Published: 09/03/2010

persephone books reprints neglected classics 20th century women writers. the titles are chosen to appeal to busy women who rarely have time to spend in ever-larger bookshops and who would like to have access to a list of books designed to be neither too literary nor too commercial.

i would buy these books by the covers alone, which i love love love (the classics range).

Posted in Vintage | Tagged Art, book covers, book design, books, classic literature, classics, literature, persephone books, vintage classics | Leave a comment

ladies

By diana | Published: 08/03/2010

wonderful collection of old favourites right here

Posted in Vintage | Tagged actresses, black and white photography, celebrities, famous people, francoise dorleac, jane birkin, marianne faithfull, mia farrow, portraits, singers, stars, Vintage, vintage photography | Leave a comment

alice, finally.

By diana | Published: 05/03/2010

GUYS i’m going to go watch alice in wonderland tomorrow. not just tomorrow, tomorrow morning. yes, that’s how eager i am. there’s always something strange about sitting in a dark cinema when it’s light outside, but there you have it. anyway, in honour of this momentous occassion, i thought i’d share some alice in wonderland imagery i enjoy.

{click on the images for their sources}

Also posted in Film | Tagged alice in wonderland, Film, movie, Vintage | 2 Comments

i just died and went to vintage opel heaven

By diana | Published: 03/03/2010

ooooh i spent way too much time yesterday perusing this collection of pics from a vintage opel calendar.

WHY don’t car companies still make awesome stuff like this? now it’s just these flashy photos of big shiny black cars cruising along with light beams flashing past them and what what. BORING. i want to see my car in fields of lavender and reflected in some pristine lake in switzerland. WITH PEOPLE. who are dressed nicely.

Posted in Vintage | Tagged advertisments, calendar, cars, opel, Vintage, vintage cars, vintage photography | 3 Comments

cars

By diana | Published: 23/02/2010

i’m still dreaming of getting an old car. mostly i just want to buy one cash and not have to worry about car payments, but i suppose there are so many other things to worry about (it breaking down, using more petrol if it’s a gas guzzler, not having *air con*, spending more cash on fixing it up than it would have cost to buy a new car bla bla bla).

but the fact that an old car always looks so much radder to me than anything else on the road outweighs all the negatives. everytime i see… Read the rest

Posted in Vintage | Tagged car design, cars, franschhoek motor museum, karmann ghia, vintage cars | 1 Comment

signs & wonders

By diana | Published: 18/02/2010

oh how i do love discovering a quality vintage photo collection. these are all from signs & wonders

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pin-up

By diana | Published: 12/02/2010

am i becoming precitable? apologies but i can be a bit of a tart for vintage – especially if it’s bordering on kitsch. most of these pin-ups certainly fit the profile, and a couple of them are even rather classy. nothing like some fifties babes to start your weekend off on the good foot, though.

all images via sheepback cabin

Also posted in Illustration | Tagged Illustration, kitsch, pin ups, retro, Vintage, vintage illustration | Leave a comment

rétrofuturs

By diana | Published: 11/02/2010

stéphane massa-bidal is a french illustrator & web designer who combines vintage imagery with thoughts & proverbs about life. he says, my global concept is called “retrofuturs”: mix the past, the present, the future and shake it! i especially like the car series.

via a cup of jo

Also posted in Design | Tagged Design, modern, proverbs, quotes, retro, vinatge, vintage adverts, vintage cars, vintage print | 1 Comment

silky soft doo wop wonders

By diana | Published: 04/02/2010

the fleetwoods – come softly to me (1959)

i’m not sure where i heard this song the first time, perhaps in the background of a video on youtube. but i LOVE it. sometimes doo-wop can be slightly annoying, but this is just right – would perfectly accompanying a scene in mad men.

Also posted in Music | Tagged doo wop, fifties, Music, sixties, the fleetwoods, Vintage | Leave a comment

mi madre

By diana | Published: 25/01/2010

my love for old photos never wanes, look at the gorgeous shots of this guy’s mom in the sixties

Posted in Vintage | Tagged family, mom, mother, Photography, Vintage | 3 Comments

letterheady

By diana | Published: 18/01/2010

“Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don’t care about the letter’s content. Just its design.”