Blinded By Science

Fantastic illustrations of the future from this 1963 graphic booklet found at El Desvan del Abuelito

Dutch pulp

A beautiful collection of dutch, american, french pulp book covers from Twincollector


via Au Carrefour Etrange

history of computer graphics (1972)

Retro about retro!
Here's a computer graphics retrospective dating from 1972, as if the pinnacle of technology had been attained.

Kostelecka Kureci

It takes a special friend to know that this sausage/liver paste from The Czech Republic would be the perfect gift to give someone. It came in a little aluminum cup styled container about 2.5 inches round and about 1/2 an inch thick. I opened it up and the paste smelled like cat poop. I did not eat it, but the aroma will stay with me forever. Do a little web surfing and you'll find it's still being sold. Buy yourself a can today! You'll be glad you did -- or not. Enjoy.

Alex Steinweiss - Creator of the LP

Alex Steinweiss with some of his designs for Columbia records, photographed by William P. Gottlieb in 1947.
Courtesy of William P. Gottlieb.
(Copyright W.P.Gottlieb.)

"The first illustrated album cover was designed in 1938 for a 78rpm record, by Alex Steinweiss, art director at Columbia Records, in 1938. And it was he, in the early 1950s, after designing hundreds of packages, posters and catalogues for Columbia, who created the paperboard LP cover to protect and market the latest revolution in music delivery, and in the process defined the visual identity of recorded music for decades to come."

from the eye feature article by Stephen Heller

Follow the development process here.

A Steinweiss record cover gallery @ Used Wigs.

For the Business Girls.

From a new blog on the block, Female Illustrators of the Mid-20th Century.

Ephemera -- mostly from Southeast Asia. via stevechasmar

"I've been gathering these for about 25 years. I wish I had been more diligent in looking and acquiring back when I first started collecting. Nowadays many of these paper envelopes that were once used for traditional nostrums have been mostly replaced by plastic packets. I recently tried to get more Burmese examples only to find they are all plastic now."

Browse his collection here

Fifty Four Fifty

From their release"I have four hands"



Animation by Mildred Pitt

Chicago gang cards

" Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago's are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70's and early 80's, back in the day when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew then what it is today. Fists, bats, and bottles days, before guns became the norm in the gang. Most of the gangs were just about the neighborhood and hanging out together. Stock art from the printer as well as some hand drawn illustrations were the back bone of many of the cards. Some cards are pretty humorous, with some off the wall illustrations, logos, sayings, and rhymes. They don't make them like they used to... " via we are supervision

Plonk!

More Swedish soft drink labels at Martin Klasch. (via gåsmannen)

Soft drink and beer labels from Värnamo

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Soft drink and beer labels from Värnamo, Sweden. (via Martin Klasch)

High quality censored videoclip

THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL


same clip on youtube

Penguin Book Covers

'The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs' by Alan Lomax.
Click guitar for better view at source.

Penguin Book Covers uploaded and shared to Flickr by letslookupandsmile.

vintage chinese children's book

Nice illustrations and beautiful monochrome prints from a chinese children's book, propably from the 50's/60's. Inspiring !
Feel free to have a look on my Flick'r page.

Chinese Pamphlets

Shui po hai le Jin sang zi




A sad story.

"Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters."

Chinese Pamphlets - Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China (via Bibi's Box)

Dr. Manta

Mantagraphics - The home of Dr. Manta.
Art, design and illustrations.



Dr. Manta is one of the masterminds behind the best Swedish Spirou site, Spirou enligt Franquin (In Swedish). An impressive site all aspects considered.

Dr. Manta is also known for his insightful comments here at PCL.
Yes, a man of great taste and high standards!

Alberto Cerriteño

'Kong-fly'

Alberto Cerriteño: artworks and designs. His blog is here. (via Urban Retro Lifestyle)

Tom Eckersley, graphic designer

"These posters were produced as industrial safety propaganda to
support the production drive that supplied the armed services. The
posters were commissioned by RoSPA and underwrittenby Ernest
Bevin's Ministry of Labour. Tom was RoSPA's most prolific designer
during WW2." (More about these posters here)

Scroll down this page for these - but don't forget the other great graphics on the page! (via I Like)