Vintage Design 1920-1980

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Retro Cosmic
Designs by James White.

Robot Rock!
Daft Punk’s recent cover is stylish and cool: retro is in.

Yopta project
Evgeniy Kiselev’s design project.

Andy Gilmore
Playful colors in the retro-look.

Packaging and Advertisement

Ice Cream Man
A contemporary illustration.

Fortunello Advertisement
This one is so effective! We’ve bought us an ice-cream immediately after we’ve seen this ad.

Knitting and spool kit

Hudson – Circus C
Page from “Circus Alphabet”, a Whitman Tell-A-Tale Book, 1954. Illustrated by Patric Hudson.

Boys and Girls
Betty Crocker’s New Boys and Girls Cook Book, 1965.

Antzen swimsuits
Designed by Pete Hawley, 1949.

Petri Wine
Everything tastes better with Petri Wine. Designed by Nick Carter in 1949.

Say their names!
The Thinking Book by Adelaide Hall, pictures by Dagmar Wilson, 1963 (1970 ed.).

Remarkable!
A mid-century ad print.

Kiss of perfection
‘Teen Oct. 1961.

Soviet Champagne Ad
Simple and beautiful.

25 Project
“Southern California has this stupid “Click It, Or Ticket” slogan for fastening your safety belt. But they also just have the boring silhouette “Fasten Your Safety Belt” signs around, these would be much cuter!”

Licor del Polo
A Spanish advertisement of the Licor del Polo, 1960.

Wrigley’s Spearmint gum ad
Wrigley’s Spearmint gum ad from Real America Magazine April 1935.

Magazine Ad – Scout (USA)
1961 Magazine Advertisement. “Meet the Scout: a whole new idea in low-cost transportation”. International Harvester Company.

Car ad
1948 Oldsmobile Series “60″ Convertible Coupe.

Skin creme ad
Do you actually believe that this ad is from 1970s? TV Radio Mirror, July 1972.

Space Art
Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1947.

Colossal Cocktails
“Back of an old matchbook purchased on eBay, of course. Would make a great party invite.”

Diabolical Appliance Mavens
“Life magazine”, March 9th, 1953.

Calendar Hotpoint December
1953 advertising calendar for Hotpoint Appliances, featuring “All Electric” kitchens – December.

1957 Secret Squadron Official Manual – cover
From the “1957 Secret Squadron Official Manual and Code Book” — a promotional item from Ovaltine, sponsors of the Captain Midnight TV series. The Captain’s airplane was called the “Silver Dart.”

Flight through instruments
Telstar Logistics: “Flight thru Instruments” and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration.

Traffic of the Future
Retro-futurism.

1960’s Advertising – Packaging – Superga (Italy)
1969 Packaging. “Superga”, Advertising Office: Unimark International. Torino, Italy

Vote! poster

I Wake Up Screaming
Classic. How many books with such covers have you read in your life? Book cover from 1941.

Vintage Pins and Vintage Buttons

Birthday Surprise!

Brooch Cluster-Retro Blue Dots On Brown

Crafting 365, day 173 – pink teacups

Posters and Typography

1960’s Advertising – Magazine Ad – Film special (Italy)
1969 Magazine Advertisement. “Film Special: bimestrale sui problemi della comunicazione audiovisia”. Advertising Office: Studio S & F Cappellato. Milano, Italy

Scott Hansen
Scott Hansen’s work is extremely powerful. These poster impress with the effective use of colors and geometric forms.

Tipógrafia
A poster with a nice pattern. Simple and effective.

TV Ad
A retro-poster from 70s.

Ulrich Schnauss Poster
A poster for the Electronica concert of Ulrich Schnauss.

Retro DVD Booklet
A clean DVD-booklet in a retro-look.

For The Love Of Letters Poster
Nick Sherman with an interesting use of letters.

Graphis Annual – 1965/66
“Ad for a printers by Karl Gerstner. This series of ads changed over the years it was used by simply changing the colour of each plate and the order in which they overprinted. “