Friday, March 7, 2008




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Thursday, March 6, 2008

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Beautiful match box labels.


Here is an absolutely amazing (and enormous, 12 pages on flickr) collection of Matchboxes from around the 50's - 60's. Mostly of Eastern European origin courtesy of Jane McDevitt and Maraid Design. There is such great use of color in these images. The old, out of register printing only improves them. I wish the artists were credited.











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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

"Saul Bass" on STAR WARS.

Pretty well done Bass pastiche posted on youtube. It was a student project by a "B. Hilmers" I guess. Great minimized designs of some classic characters.



See more of Bass' great feature titles at the Not Coming to a Theater Near You website. It's kind of a stilted way to see the sequences but, they're pretty decent captures and the slick interface allows you to really study the transitions at your leisure.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

From Abstract to Archie

Abstract art is a frequent source of laffs in teen comics of the '60s and early '70s. And the distance from abstract to cartoon is sometimes just a few well-placed lines . . .

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