Advertising guru Charles Saatchi has found a selection of adverts from the 1950s and 1960s which would today be considered offensive, sexist and in many cases, in poor taste
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The 1950s and ’60s were a time when most wanna-be illustrators wanted to be Bob Peak. It was also the moment when illustration was at a crossroads. Would it continue to merely serve or illuminate a text, or would it say something more? Since the emerging editorial themes (war, peace, race, etc.) were more socially and metaphorically charged, the substance and style of illustration could no longer be entirely realistic. Certain levels of abstraction were filtered into the Amer
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Detail from 1950s Nutone Mixer brochure.
Run Turkey! Run! Here are some more vintage cookbook illustrations, (again, from the oh, so talented Kay Lovelace) to help get you in the Thanksgiving spirit! To see more of Kay Lovelace's illustrations go here. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and make sure to take a little time to put your feet up and relax a bit, you deserve it!
Retro Reveries celebrates fun vintage advertising art and illustrations from midcentury America. Browse thousands of advertisements and magazine covers for a fun walk down memory lane.
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Hello again from my weekly blog. I’ve just been putting the finishing touches to this and have been updating the images after the weekend Craft Fair. I knew you’d want to see it ! This…
Don Draper has opened a 37th floor window into the art of post-war American advertising, but a new exhibit of illustrations called Mac Conner: A New York Life is attempting to fill in the picture without all the alcohol-fueled melodrama. Born in 1913, McCauley “Mac” Conner studied art via correspondence classes as a meek teen […]
“Walt Disney Productions published a book in 1956 titled, Our Friend the Atom. A television episode of Disneyland aired in 1957 under the same name and can be found on the DVD set Tomorrowlan…
am i becoming precitable? apologies but i can be a bit of a tart for vintage – especially if it’s bordering on kitsch. most of these pin-ups certainly fit the profile, and a couple of them are even…
Maxwell Coburn Whitmore (1913-1988) è stato un pittore ed illustratore di riviste Americano, noto per le sue copertine del Saturday Evening Post ed un
