VISUAL COMMUNICATION HISTORY BLOG

These are things that I collected over some time. So, unfortunately there is no resource link that goes with this post, except to direct you to pinterest > > > where you will find lots and lots of images which will however mostly link you back to places where they are selling them.

Published by Schalekamp, van de Grampel en Bakker, Amsterdam. Found on the Memory here > > >

Owned by the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy, this 500-year-old list was written and illustrated by the sculptor / painter / poet / personality on the back of a letter. Michelangelo’s servant was likely illiterate, so Michelangelo sketched out what he wanted to eat.

Just a whimsy of mine today. Victorian trade cards and advertisements featuring cats that I found online. ;-)

Artist: Kyd. Publisher: Raphael Tuck and Sons. More can be seen at cardcow, a commercial site which features a really great collection: http://www.cardcow.com/

From Centrasian's wonderful Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/

I live in dread of the Cartamania site going out of existence one day since it has not been updated in over 2 years now. This is one of the greatest places that I have come across for things such as postcards from the 19th century, as well as all kinds of other wonderful paper based curiosities. So far, so good... One of the nicest collections on Cartamania is a set of postcards designed by Alphonse Mucha . Below are two of them. To see many mor…

... is brought to us by clotho98 : A truly great repository of in-your-face modernist advertising design. I absolutely love it! clotho's interests also cover Victoriana and Art Deco. She has separated her collection into various categories and I will definitely be tackling some of the others later. For now, get a load of this lot :