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If you are a graphic designer who is suddenly confronted with having to design a retro logo or a label that asks for a no hold barred approach, needs every pattern, texture, flourish, all the typographic twists and turns and curlicues - and all correctly placed, no less - you may be quite intimidated by the task at hand. I know, I certainly would be. Kittl is a truly astonishing online app that lets you create these complex types of logos. You st…

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 > > >

From the David Ramsey Map Collection. See original posting here >>>

Seen here:  http://vintageephemera.blogspot.com/2010/10/advertisement-page-from-scientific-news.html

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

Only two of the full collection found on wikimedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_America

Tigre Milena, aka. Doni Parlanti is a high powered professional in a field completely unrelated to Victorian fairy tales. In her "other" life Tigre is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life ®, where she shows skills and talents which have nothing whatsoever to do with the demands of her "Real Life" job: Tigre sets up complex scenes (which are actually lived-in locations within her own virtual home), populated with the c…

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 found this here:  http://hubpages.com/hub/vintage-victorian-flowers-and-fruit , to where I was directed to from here:  http://wordplayblog.com/ . Rather nice pages for Victoriana, so I am thinking that they will be good things to share. I added the dark background, however you can find the original illustration here .

A selection of images from the blogpost entitled Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography published on the BibliOdyssey blog earlier this week in which title pages, headings and letterforms of maps issued between 1880 and 1920 by the Sanborn company are shown. The images below are from the Virginia map from October 1907 (top); the South Carolina map from June 1919 (middle); and the Washington DC map from1903 (bottom).

One problem when writing a post on Steampunk is how to label it correctly: Does one use the label "19th Century" or "21st Century" or both? Again, would this genre go under "Victoriana" or "Computer"? It seems to me that all of the above would have to apply: Although Steampunk , as an art and design movement is contemporary and is also often computer based through its wide usage in game design, the inspir…

The Hammonia Typewriter https://www.antiquetypewriters.com/typewriter/hammonia-typewriter/