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  • Vintage science illustrations

    When you’re not forced to look at them for school, science books can be awfully pretty. The folks over at the vintage science pool at flickr seem to understand this. It’s a gallery filled with wonderful retro science textbook illustrations.

    Thursday 26th June 2008 - 9:59:12 AM | Comment

  • Retro sci-fi novel covers by Richard Powers

    Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi has posted a series of retro science fiction book covers to his blog. The art is all by Richard Powers, an illustrator whose work looks like Paul Klee in space.

    Wednesday 25th June 2008 - 10:02:25 AM | Comment

  • Cartoon Modern: stylish 50’s animation

    If you love 50’s animation as much as I do, you’ll want to check out the book Cartoon Modern and its companion blog by Amid Amidi. It closely examines cartoon art from this era. For a brief period of time animators emphasized a graphic design style that focused less on realism and more on getting [...]

    Thursday 29th May 2008 - 9:01:28 PM | Comment

  • Spread ‘em: legs in the media

    Print magazine has a feature devoted to the common “object between spread legs” design element, tracing the graphic back to its roots on the covers of 1940’s pulp novels.

    Wednesday 21st May 2008 - 7:58:08 PM | Comment

  • Kayo Books in San Francisco: trashy pulp novel heaven

    A good rule of thumb is to take any advice John Waters gives you. He has yet to let me down, and he has impeccable taste in things both new and old. So when I heard his favorite book store was San Francisco’s Kayo Books, I had to check it out. It didn’t disappoint. The [...]

    Friday 25th April 2008 - 8:03:08 PM | Comment

  • Retro-fy your home with designer help from Populuxe Books

    Need tips on giving your home some mid-century flare? The folks over at Populuxe Books are here to help. They’ve been collecting 1950’s and 60’s interior design, architecture, art, and DIY books from thrift stores. I’m sure they put in long, hard hours digging through the dreck at Goodwill so you don’t have to. They’ve [...]

    Friday 14th March 2008 - 8:50:44 PM | Comment

  • Miroslav Sasek: glorious retro illustrations

    Want to travel the world from the comfort of your chair? Just have a seat with a stack of books by Czech illustrator Miroslav Sasek. Between 1959 and 1974, Sasek wrote 18 books in his “This is…” series. Each book contains gorgeous drawings of the tourist spots, fashions, and transportation methods of the city of [...]

    Thursday 13th March 2008 - 8:02:28 PM | Comment

  • Pulp and children’s book covers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s

     

     

    Flickr user jl.incrowd has made three great photosets:
    1940’s Paperback Mysteries
    Paperback Mysteries, etc., - - the 1950’s and ’60’s
    Nostalgia for the Scholastic Book Club, circa ’60’s & ’70’s
    [via boingboing]

    Friday 8th February 2008 - 10:10:35 PM | Comment