Tag Archives | vintage illustration

stamps

from the extensive collection of karen horton

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clima ideal

another cool set of hotel luggage labels belonging to david pearson (he has loads more ephemera to browse)

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figural cameos

a huge collection of figural cameos at sheaff ephemera seen via words & eggs

in figural cameos, the advertising text is placed within a design that resembles the product it advertises. examples of these would be padlocks, kegs, water pitchers, boots, books and many others.

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posters

getting lost in the doctor macro archives is always a joy, especially when you stumble upon total gems like these posters for tales of manhattan

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soviet postcards

i love tumblrs like this: soviet postcards – straightforward, simple, just like that.

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these things: vintage illustration

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colour me in

the kind of book i would have pored over as a kid (albeit strangely dark & trippy)

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i like american music

very nice collection of historic american sheet music cover illustrations (love that fox)

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vintage collective

explore the vintage collective (if i ever had to get a tattoo it would look something along the lines of this)

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the visual telling of stories

my heart rate literally shot up when i discovered the visual telling of stories, a seemingly never-ending library of vintage illustrations & design. for a second i had a bit of a gollum moment, imagining myself sitting in the dark scrolling through pages of old drawings muttering about my precious. on the front page chris mullen (the owner of the site) states, “it’s bigger than you could ever think – just explore”. you bet i will, chris. here are a couple of gems for now, but be rest assured that i will be sharing more as i go deeper down the rabbit hole…

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