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Since televisions became available to buy in the 1920s they have gone through lots of changes. They have gone from Black and White to Colour to 3D, and in recent years they have changed dramatically with the arrival of the flat screen. Most of...
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Comments Off on Grande Ballroom Detroit – Concert Postcards
Michigan graphic artist Gary Grimshaw and illustrator Carl Lundgren were the designers responsible for these colourful postcards that promoted concerts at the Detroit Grande Ballroom during the sixties. Their kaleidoscopic designs were not just for the...
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Comments Off on The Big Round World of BOAC – Airline Posters
BOAC – The British Overseas Airways Corporation was a state airline that started in 1940. Later in 1974 the corporation merged with British European Airways to form British Airways. In this post we get that summertime feeling and take a look at the...
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Comments Off on Souled Out – Seventies K-Tel Television Adverts
It’s Soul time with K-Tel – As Advertised on television (Many years ago) During the seventies the budget record label released several Soul compilation albums. A while ago we blogged two of the adverts from the Super Bad series. We’ve had...
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Comments Off on Gimme Some Shade – Sunglasses Adverts
Time to give you some shade as we take a look at an assortment of magazine adverts for sunglasses from the swinging sixties through to the late seventies . Within our sunny selection of eyewear there’s model Jean Shrimpton advertising Ray Ban...
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Comments Off on MAD Magazine Spoof Adverts
William M. Gaines was the publisher of MAD Magazine, while he was there he refused to include any sort of advertising in his publication. This gave him the opportunity to spoof anything he wished. Here are some of the magazine’s satirical...
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Comments Off on Striking Designs – German Matchbox Labels
Great graphic designs pop up in the most unlikely places, as we’ve seen before in our Medicated follower of fashion post which feaured some very groovy adverts from a Spanish Medical Magazine. This time we take a look at some cool vintage matchbox...
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Comments Off on Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn – Retro Ephemera
Welcome to the Voices of East Anglia Hotel and Motel retro ephemera post. Here we have a mixture of brochures, menus, postcards, pamphlets and magazine adverts from the sixties and seventies. Amongst the selection there’s ol’...
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Comments Off on The Natural Choice – ARP Synthesizer Adverts
Our knowledge of synthesizers could be written on the back of a very small stamp. However, what we do know is the ARP 2600 synth was designed by Alan R. Pearlman with Dennis Colin, one was used in the film Star Wars to create the...
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Comments Off on Button Up – Pin-Back Badges
The button badge was first used to show your loyalty to a political party in the late 1700s. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln’s campaigners created the first badge that featured a photo, however the design that we know today wasn’t patented for another...
