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Comments Off on Small and Mighty – The Vespa 400 Microcar
I think it’s fair to say thet we’re admirers of the Vespa brand and style here at VoEA, with a few notable exceptions these days… The Vespa scooter is well covered, so here is a piece on the Vespa 400 microcar. Produced from 1957 –...
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Comments Off on Neil Fujita – Innovative Graphic Designer
One of our esteemed readers recently suggested we take a look at the work of S. Neil Fujita and being as our readers have such good taste we decided to take this advice on board. Little did we know quite how much truly iconic work this man has created so it...
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Comments Off on Googie – Postcards from the Cutting Edge
We’ve previously posted about Googie Architecture – the predominant style of roadside cafe, restaurant and petrol station architecture in post-war America and how its combination of futuristic looks and space age vision spread from one café in...
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Comments Off on The Art of Jazz – David Stone Martin
Now as you may have gathered, here at VoEA we are big fans of the format that is vinyl records. There are many reasons that we won’t go into today but one of them is definitely the cover art. Not all vinyl records have fantastic cover art, in fact many...
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Comments Off on Googie Style – Back to the Future
The contrast between post-war America and the UK really was quite astounding in many ways almost to the point where it seems in the 1950s everything in the States was in colour and we were struggling along in good old black and white. There were many areas of...
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Comments Off on Twenty Health and Safety Posters
Before the World went completely health and safety bonkers there was a gentler time when people were reminded rather than told what to do. Unfortunately when people are given gentle reminders they tend just to ignore them which is why we have our rampant...
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Comments Off on ‘Ello John. Got A New Motor – Retro Porsche Posters
No, well then check out this bunch of ads for Porsche. You know we love our advertising here at VoEA, there’s no artwork that sums up a time more than advertising. It is very representative, because it’s trying to appeal to the masses of that...
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Comments Off on The Joy Of Decks – Record Player Adverts
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that here at VoEA Heights we’re big fans of the medium that is vinyl records. So much so in fact (and keep this to yourselves) that some of our number still won’t have CDs in the house.So, it follows...
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Comments Off on Vinyl in Life Magazine
Life magazine started way back in 1936, so it will be no surprise that our favourite physical format of music has made many appearances in the magazine over the years. Among our vinyl selection are a few famous faces including singer Peggy Lee leaning on a...
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Comments Off on More From The HMV Oxford Street Record Store in London
After the runaway success of our Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties post, we thought we’d have another look around the world wide web for pictures of the shop in other decades. We expected to find a few photos of the London store,...
