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The first Christmas catalogue Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989) created for Fortnum's was in 1955. The 1958 catalogue is an extended pun on the word 'cat', and is full of witty and playful drawings. Cats were a passion of his, as they strut, dance, and grin their way through these remarkable pages. Part of his enduring appeal is his combination of modernism and tradition. He always believed that a good piece of design was as valuable as …

More can be seen here > > > The entire collection of the Queensland Library on Flickr is a treasure trove. There is some graphic design, but the bulk of it is memorabilia and photographs, so nice that it is certainly worth a visit > > > . Located in Brisbane, Australia, the State Library of Queensland’s mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible the state’s documentary heritage. The State Library holds approximately 1.…

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 > > >

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

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/

The famous Prelinger archive is a collection of over 2000 vintage videos which are opensourced, so they can be used for teaching purposes, also in studio art classes: http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

... 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 :