WHAT WE’RE CREATING: Hello Design Cutters! Jo here. Today, we’re entering a bit of a vintage design vortex by creating an advert for a vintage themed ‘Parfumerie Fayre’ event, in a retro 50’s style. Using the first ever version of Photoshop for some extra vintage flair… (just kidding)! :p We’ll be looking at how to […]
Sometimes in life you seem to end up following a path you never quite expected and that seems to be the case here at VoEA. When we started this blog we had a rough idea what we wanted to do and the rest has kind of followed. One of the recurring themes and also, it [&hellip
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
Here's a lovely blast from the past - an Esso Blue illuminated sign, seen above unilluminated, featuring Joe the Esso Blue dealer, befamed of the "Boom Boom Boom - Esso Blue!" TV ads from the 1950s to the 1970s. On dark winters' evenings, signs like this would glow at us from shop windows as we made our way home. The sign illuminated, with Joe informing passers-by: "ESSO BLUE PARAFFIN ON SALE HERE". They're still around, of course, but the retro charm of the old days is somehow lacking (to younger generations, the present illuminated signs will probably assume greater charm in years to come, envoking fond memories of childhood). When I was a kid, I imagined that the inner-workings of these signs must be somewhat sophisticated. Not till I was about eight did it occur to me that the striking effect was achieved with a single light bulb.
WHAT WE’RE CREATING: Hello Design Cutters! Renee here with a Photoshop tutorial, as requested by our lovely community. We’re going to create a vintage ad promoting our favorite source of design obsession — Design Cuts! We’ll mix 1950’s style illustrations and shapes with retro fonts and textures to create a stylish advertisement that oozes with […]
Three different designers have all created various posters and ads that take the most popular sites in cyberspace and give them a vintage look. From Google Plus to Facebook, the stylized retro treatment emulates everything from Propaganda posters to vintage textbooks. Take a look. 1. Aaron Wood Graphic designer Aaron Wood from Massachusetts has this great and growing selection of Propaganda Posters selling Social Media tools and sites. The above posters (and more) are available for purchase from Aaron's etsy store, Justonescarf Design. 2. Moma Agency/6B Studio Brazilian ad agency Moma Propoganda created the following spread ads to promote Maximedia Seminars. They ran as spread ads like the one shown above, but for the sake of better seeing the artwork, here's a look at the left hand side pages only. Advertising Agency: Moma, Sao Paulo, Brazil Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio Art Director: Marco Martins Copywriter: Adriano Matos Illustrator: 6B Studio Published: July 2010 3. Stéphane Massa-Bidal Lastly, Stéphane Massa-Bidal aka Hulk4598 or Rétrofuturs is a french illustrator and graphic designer who recreated vintage textbooks using popular sites and social media tools as the subjects. Images courtesy of each individual artist and the clio awards
Retro Jeans and trousers adverts
Not only would these sexist vintage ads not sell well today, they'd cause a huge social media backlash. See 50 of the most obnoxious examples here.
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
Ford sets the fashion: Gals with gunz - Ford Zyphyr 6 advert featuring hat and suit design by Ronald Paterson, a British fashion designer born in 1917 who later served as fashion consultant on such...
In the 1960s and 1970s, women had big hair and big computers. They also had short skirts...
Must have been some kind of werewolfism going around that year in Iowa. Ad from the Cookbook Section of the Sioux City Journal 1968
The House of the Future was a series of Motorola advertisements from the early 1960s illustrated by Chicago native Charles Schridde (April 30, 1926 – May 15, 2011). Schridde’s first ad for Motorola TV’s (above) ran in Life Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post in 1961. According to Steve Kosareff “public response was so … Continue reading "The House of The Future: Charles Schridde’s Stunning 1960s Adverts For Motorola"
Henri Matisse
An old advertising brochure for the german "Pelikan" company. It reads: "Day in, day out, millions of secretaries around the world fulfill their responsible task. They are their bosses right hand. They take up stenographs, write letters, make phonecalls and prepair conferences. But whatever they have to accomplish, they need good tools for it."
From Tropical Splendor to Tropical Excellence I saw the following vintage poster (probably from the 1930s?) hanging on a wall in the National Library. Equipped with an extremely low quality image a…
WHAT WE’RE CREATING: Hello Design Cutters! Jo here. Today, we’re entering a bit of a vintage design vortex by creating an advert for a vintage themed ‘Parfumerie Fayre’ event, in a retro 50’s style. Using the first ever version of Photoshop for some extra vintage flair… (just kidding)! :p We’ll be looking at how to […]
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