Archive for the 'Old Skool' Category

3-3-2011

Eastern European Star Wars Poster

I like this one, though there’s way wierder ones here. Via Sci-Fi-O-Rama.

2-22-2011

Metro Logos from Around the World

Love this. (Via This Isn’t Happiness and metrobits.org.

2-18-2011

Vans and the places where they were.

Man, I thought I had some oddly specific blogs. This one is great. Wish there were more pics! Some faves:

2-17-2011

New Total Design book by Unit Editions

TD 63-73: Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design looks like it’ll be another great one from Unit Editions, who can do no wrong. And this is the sweet spot in a sweet history.

1-26-2011

Memories. Stinky memories…

1-24-2011

Whoa. I thought I had too many cameras.

Michel Jones has me beat. And on his Flickr page, they’re all labelled.

1-23-2011

Uncle Fun

The haul from my last trip to this ridiculous store.

1-11-2011

Polish Posters for Japanese Movies

Great collection at PinkTentacle.com. This one stopped me in my tracks: War of the Gargantuas (Poland, 1975)   These two are cool, too.         

11-29-2010

Vintage Powell Peralta

I pulled this classic ’80s VCJ (Vernon Courtlandt Johnson) art from LifeLounge awhile back:   In looking for more, I stumbled across Spider’s Flickr page with a huge repository of Powell stuff. Including some oldies (click to see ’em bigger):   A 1978 illo by VCJ:   And a 1979 one by VCJ:   The [...]

11-4-2010

Logos and Symbols

From Draplin’s incredible Flickr stream, I extracted a bunch (over 100!) of great old logos. Thanks to him for taking so many pictures on his “junking” trips!