Graphic Garbage

From 1960s France, an alphabet of blotters created to promote the encyclopaedia publisher Larousse www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/b...

Dionne Warwick concert poster by Barbara Nessim, 1969.

B. Kilban

B. Kilban

Magazine ads for Soysauce (Kikkoman) designed by Tadashi Ohashi in the 1980s. Scanned from Advertisements (World Graphic Design Now), Kodansha, 1991
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Character design work by Yasuhiro Nakura for Moomin (1990–1991), dir. Hiroshi Saito, Telescreen

Shiro Kasamatsu, Puppy, 1959

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072.

No. 222: Betye Saar Episode No. 222 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Betye Saar. The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is showing “Betye Saar: Still Tickin’,” a survey of nearly 55…

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Betye Saar, The House of Tarot
1966

Four magazine covers two are orange, the other two are purple and pink with modernist graphics

Ken Garland covers for Design magazine, where he was the art editor from 1956-62.

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Yamana Ayao designs for Shiseido, 1930s-1960s

Stockholm Olympics, 1912

Carton de Venezuela posters, John Massey, 1964

Gebrauchsgraphik, 06, 1965. Cover design by Lutz Roeder designreviewed.com/artefacts/ge...

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Keisuke Ito: Lepidoptera (1855)

101 Dalmatians (1961) Original Movie Posters 101 Dalmatians (1961) Original Movie Posters at Posteritati, New York. The most authoritative collection of original movie posters from classic Hollywood to contemporary art-house. Shop online or visi...

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Gabriella Hajnal, 1984

Liliana Baczewska, 1961

Polish & Hungarian posters for 101 Dalmatians

Tamara de Lempicka, Perspective (The Two Girlfriends), 1923

Teija Lehto
Making Jam
Woodcut 2016

Cream-colored corded landline telephone with an oversized bright orange keypad. Each large, raised key is shaped like a chunky number (1–9) arranged in a 3×3 grid, with letters (ABC, DEF, etc.) printed on the keys. The bottom row includes a star, a large “0” labeled “OPER,” and a pound sign. The handset rests on the left side of the rectangular base, and the phone sits against a plain white background.

the distinct feeling that the 1988 Radio Shack Big Button phone would fix me

Mr Strawberry is a classic male manipulator

To My Valentine: George Willard Bonte’s Tuck Postcards From the Early 20th Century George Willard Bonte found solace in the unusual. He was an author, artist, poet, cartoonist and political consultant. He was a native of Ci...

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Fruit & vegetable valentines by George Willard Bonte

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

Polish poster for Akira Kurosawa's SANJURO (1962)

Hand colored city view of Venice depicted in a woodcut illustration. It contains the colors blue for water and red for the roofs of houses. You see brown ships with white sails. In the background a green hillside.

Woodcut illustration surrounded by gothic type of Judith with Holofernes on her sword. The illustration is colored in by hand.

Woodcut illustration of the sun next to the moon. Both of them have faces. Surrounded by gothic type and colored in by hand.

Page in the book with a large woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve in Paradise colored in by hand. Below text in gothic type.

Browsing through Koberger’s 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle in which the #woodcut illustrations do the heavy lifting long before the text gets a chance.

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Patterns from the Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai, 1902

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Jazz Festival posters by Takenobu Igarashi, 1980s