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PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags vintage & flickr

2009

20th Century Remembrances : un album sur Flickr

Yet more of the Weird, sometimes funny, sometimes sad but decidedly interesting slides of the 20th Century. All of them were up for grabs at estate sales or garage sales or in the trash, their owners long gone. So I came to the rescue with my trusty scanner and Photoshop. Some of the slides had labels and others needed labels. I provide song lyrics when inspired. Leave your thoughts - that's why I've posted them...

{matd} Michael Twyman's typographic delights : un album sur Flickr

Typographical details of Michael Twyman's ephemera collection. - French posters 19/20th Century - Telephone Directory - Time History charts - Pop Up Books - Non-Latin books - Forms

2008

Album of World Champions : un album sur Flickr

Allen & Ginter Album of Worlds Champions Published by W. Duke Sons & Co. circa 1888-1900

Animate : un album sur Flickr

Pictures and drawings of real people.

Vintage Logos : un album photos sur Flickr

by 5 others
Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70's edition of the book World of Logotypes. NOTE: I did not create any of this work! This book is out of print but can probably be found with some scouring.

2007

Obscene Interiors

I created this series in 2003 from images found on the web for a project about pornography and never used it. These interiors are too fantastical not too share and in combination with the invisible pornography creates very interesting visuals. Not dissimilar from work by a friend called Tracy Lynch and the original obscene interiors.

Space Alphabet

In honor of Sputnik 1, 50 years later (on Oct. 4th), I present to you all a nice little gem of a book I got off of ebay about a year ago: Space Alphabet (1964) by Irene Zacks. Pictures by Peter P. Plasencia. It's the entire book. I normally don't do this, but it's just too good not to share it all.

Neon Graveyard

by 1 other
There is an awesome museum in Vegas that collects all the old neon signs that have been decommissioned. Here's a link to their site.

2006

Purchase of The Week - a photoset on Flickr

A flickr set of my thrifty secondhand purchases. View more at my blog at www.drawger.com/linzie

Bird in the Hand's photosets on Flickr

by 1 other
San Francisco artist, Lisa Congdon, was born in 1968 to a textile artist mother and physicist father. Through her mother’s influence, Lisa's love of art and craft began at a young age, though she has never had any formal artistic training. She uses her lack of training to her advantage; instead of relying on refined technique, she uses her own raw sense of what looks aesthetically pleasing as her guide.

Krazy Kids Items - a photoset on Flickr

KREAM KRUNCH - Chunks of REAL ICE CREAM freeze-dried in a nutritious cereal....hummmmm yummy !

Pulp Fiction - a photoset on Flickr

by 1 other
Vintage classics and rejects of the paperback pulp fiction (and non-fiction) genre.

2005

The Retro Kid Pool - Pedro in Brazil

illustrated children's books from the mid-1940's through the mid-1960's, by Mary Blair, JP Miller, The Provensen's, Art Seiden, Aurelius Battaglia, and the like.Also, also anything that was illustrated for kids at that time: albums, 45's, commericals, ads, games, toys, etc. If it's retro, and it looks cool, let's see it!

Retro Arcade - a photoset on Flickr

Most of these pictures were taken from projected slides - rescued from the dumpster.