There's nothing better on a Monday morning than some vintage packaging! This wonderful selection is from
Neato Coolville's Vintage Packaging Flickr set.
My favourite is the little 1960's box for Rediplete Pediatric Syrup (above) made by Merck Sharp & Dohme - it's such a clever, fun design.
It's a great collection, which is definitely worth a look. Here are a few more that caught my eye...
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#101 - Vintage tins. There can never be enough vintage tins in the reference box! My favourite of this little lot is the John Bull,
Mend-a-tear one (top) with it's stripey-edged lid. You can't really tell in the pic, but it has a lovely pale grey background. I really love the
Ogden's and
Bondman type too.
If vintage tins and ephemera are your thing - make a cup of tea, grab a biscuit and have a root through our
reference box.
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Big news! We've been kindly invited by April and Tim to join
AT Open House for this years Brighton Festival of
Artists Open Houses in May.
Each weekend throughout the Festival artists around the city open their doors to the public creating,
"a great opportunity to view unique work in artists’ homes and studios and to buy directly from the artist or maker".
AT Open House (April and Tim's lovely 3 storey home and garden) will be open weekends 12-6 showing a feast of textiles, knitted jewellery, prints, paper ephemera, vintage fashion and art from the likes of Jonny Hannah, Winsome & Saucy, Mark Pavey and Alice Pattullo.
There'll be something for everyone, from a vintage tea shop, to a knitting room, outdoor poetry readings, and even a vintage boudoir. It's very exciting and we're thrilled to be involved.
The
AT Open House blog will be up and running very shortly for regular updates, but in the meantime you can see the full list of participants, join the mailing list and find out more
here.
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#100 - Make Do and Mend, WWII booklet. I promised something special for number 100, and I don't think this will disappoint. It's an original
Board of Trade, booklet published in 1943 as part of their 'Make Do and Mend' campaign.
The Board of Trade produced many leaflets and booklets during WWII. This one was specifically designed to:
• Keep clothes looking trim as long as they have to last
• Renovate children's outgrown clothes so cleverly that none is ever wasted
• Turn every scrap of good material you possess to advantage
• Keep your household linen in good repair
• Make do with things you already have instead of buying new
Clothes rationing was introduced in June 1941 and originally allocated 66 coupons per person. By 1943 the number of coupons had been reduced to 60 per person and emphasis put on the maintenance and care of clothing and household linens - cue the Make Do and Mend campaign.
There are 29 illustrations throughout the booklet including these lovely section headings...
I was lucky enough to pick up this original booklet for 50p!! But if you would like one, the Ministry of Information have published reproductions of all their wartime information publications in the, 'Historic Booklet Series'. This one can be purchased
here. Also there's a great article about clothing rations during WWII
here if you would like to know more.
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Congrats to our friends over at Sell! Sell! for creating the fabulous branding and advertising for Fentiman's new Alcoholic Ginger Beer -
John Hollows.
Research is my favourite part of a project, so I loved reading about the branding and how it developed through their research into Fentiman's and Hollow's brewing history.
The advertising is bold and fun, challenging the 'fake' ginger wine-based or flavoured lager ginger beers of the competition and warning customers, 'Beware of imitations'...
And to promote the new drink in pubs and bars, they've created the 'not a genuine ginger?' beermat - perfectly designed to disguise yourself as a true ginger...
Read more about the project
here.
Images copyright Sell!Sell!
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P&O Entertainment Programme, Dorrit Dekk.
P&O Entertainment Programme, Dorrit Dekk. 1962.
P&O Entertainment Programme, Dorrit Dekk. 1962.
P&O Gala Menu, Daphne Padden. 1962.
P&O Entertainment Programme, Daphne Padden. Circa 1950's.
P&O Gala Menu, Daphne Padden. 1958.
P&O Entertainment Programme, Daphne Padden. 1959.P&O Menu/Entertainment Programme cover, Daphne Padden.P&O Gala Menu, Daphne Padden. 1956.Here's a bit of inspiration for a dreary, wet Wednesday morning.
I first saw a P&O Entertainment Programme designed by Dorrit Dekk over on
Quad Royal and was instantly drawn to the bright, graphic illustrations/collages.
On further investigation I found
Bonito Club's Flickr and yet more fabulous P&O covers (Menus and Entertainment Programmes) from the late 50's and early 60's. All the ones I've seen were designed by either
Daphne Padden or
Dorrit Dekk, but I'm not sure if they created all the covers during this period.
There must be hundreds more in existence, as it seems the designs changed every year and each P&O liner had different designs. I'll have to keep my eye out for some of these on Ebay!
If you like this post, chances are you'll also like these:
Gebrauchsgraphik MagazineModern PackagingHoliday MagazineCountry Fair MagazineWhich? MagazineMac FisheriesImages copyright Quad Royal and Bonito Club.
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"Don't drain my anti-freeze it protects my engine, winter and summer"I snapped this Shell sticker last Summer - the cute little chappie was on the front screen of a very old car and by the looks of it, he'd been there for quite some time.
If found type/old signage is your thing, check out previous posts
here.
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#99 - Cats and kittens: The magazine for every cat-lover, September 1947. Who can resist cats and kittens? Not me that's for sure, so imagine my delight finding cat related ephemera!
I've been unable to find out much about this monthly publication (other than there is a publication by the same name still going strong
today, but in the US). I've found references to this Rolls House Published version dating back to the early 30's, but unfortunately I can't find an exact launch date.
Anyway, even without all the history, it's great that back in the 30's and 40's people loved their cats so much there was a need for a monthly publication and how great is that 'kitten' type?
Check out some of the wonderful cat related ads below...
There are lots more items in our reference box, have a root
here.
And watch out for
#100, it's going to be a special one!
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The last Saul Bass exhibition I remember in the UK was back in 2004 at London's
Design Museum. As you would expect from a retrospective of such an influential designer, it was a very inspiring collection of work.
Much of his work was for the film industry and throughout the 60's Bass famously worked with film directors Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger producing iconic film posters. Posters we are now going to get the chance to see again thanks to
Kemistry Gallery, London.
Bass Notes: The film posters of Saul Bass is a collection of film posters, title credits and film festival posters from the Lloyd Northover donation to the
British Film Institute. I'm not sure which posters will be in the exhibition and I can't wait to find out, but to get you in the mood here's a selection of the classics...
Above posters all available to purchase At The Movies.
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The vintage Sellotape tins have become a bit of an obsession and I now have quite a collection including this fabulous example. It's a large (165mm [6.5"] high & 120mm [4 5/8"] diameter) tubular tin designed to hold a stack of 12 individual tins.
I think this is how they were sold to retailers/trade, so I don't think they were ever available to the general public unless they were buying 12 rolls!
I love this tape on the side with the contents information on...
This was the only large Sellotape tin I had ever seen on Ebay but
this current listing has 8 tins in total, 2 of which are like this. I desperately want the two with the black stripes on, but I'm holding back. I think there's a limit to the number of Sellotape tins any one person should own and I've definitely already passed it, especially as I bought an older version of this one last night! (below).
See more of my vintage Sellotape tins
here and
here.
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Some lovely Tuesday inspiration in the form of
Gebrauchsgraphik: International Advertising Art covers. Gebrauchsgraphik
or 'Commercial Arts' magazine was a German design and graphics publication founded in 1923 by Professor H. K. Frensel.
There are lots of examples of Gebrauchsgraphik covers on line, the ones above are from;
A Journey Around My Skull,
Webdesigner Depot,
Bust Bright's Flickr,
Aqua Velvet and
Designers Books.
If Vintage magazine covers are your thing, you light like the following posts:
Which? Modern PackagingCountry Fair and more
Country Fair
HolidayOpus InternationalFortuneJuana GaitaGentryScienza e Vita
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I love a collection, and one that combines cheese and design just has to be worth a post! These wonderful cheese labels circa 1957 are part of a collection large found in a scrapbook on Ebay and featured in
Culture Magazine.
Read the full story over on
Design Observer.
Images copyright Culture Magazine.
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