Check out these awesome boxing posters from the 1930s and 40s.
Tag: Vintage
Vintage record sleeves
Project Thirty Three is a blog by Seattle-based Jive Time Records, showcasing a fantastic collection of record sleeve designs, categorised by motif…
Friday find: Paint can labels
Very nice vintage paint can labels designed by Dustin Wallace for Fossil.
Fantastic, strange, incredible, super, amazing comic book mastheads!
John Hilgart calls himself a curator of lost items. Among his assortment of finds, is SUPERTYPE! – a collection of high res vintage comic book mastheads to marvel at…
Friday find: Typewriter ribbon tins
Janine Vangool from Calgary, Canada has a great collection of vintage typewriter ribbon tins. How cool!
Friday find: Vintage erasers
Lovely eraser branding and packaging from yesteryear… and a skateboard deck!
The typography of Water for Elephants
A fascinating example of how graphic design plays a vital role in movie production, yet goes virtually unnoticed amidst the drama!
Friday find: Flight thru Instruments, 1945
How awesome is this rare military flight manual from 1945? That front cover couldn’t be more perfect. An excerpt from the foreword: The pilot who cannot fly through instruments, therefore, consigns himself and his plane to a part time job and places both in the premodern era where usefulness was limited by the amount of… Continue reading Friday find: Flight thru Instruments, 1945
Friday find: 1911 Baseball Guide
Ornate vintage typography from American Sports Publishing Co.
Incredible vintage typography from Sanborn Map Company
Examples of the incredible variety of ornate typographic titles which appeared on Sanborn Maps between 1880 and 1920.