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"Cosak is the kind of cloth the world of tailoring has dreamed about" In 1967 woolen merchants Dormeuil limited spent around £100,000 (over a £1 million today) on an advertising campaign that promoted a brand new durable material that was twice the strength of Mohair - Cosak was a blend of 55% Terylene...
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Here we have a short and eerie clip from Ken Russell's 1962 documentary about British Pop Art 'Pop Goes The Easel'.The snippet of film stars one of our favourite Pop Artist's Pauline Boty, who's being chased down the corridors of the recently closed BBC Television Centre by a wheelchair bound lady...
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We've written about Len Deighton before when we looked at the mysterious Spy Story. Here we take a look at another side of Deighton's scribing talents with his noted cookbook appropriately enough called Len Deighton's Action Cookbook. It was conceived with man of action bachelor type chaps in mind...
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This groovy set of soul and funk trading cards first turned up while we were browsing around the depths of Pinterest. The retro style cards were created by Dublin based freelance designer and illustrator Niall McCormack, who also designs record sleeves, book covers and posters. Mixed in with the likes...
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Our first encounter with this seventies Thai film was on you tube.The clip was described as Dirty Harry Meets Shaft in Thailand by French cult movie website Foxy Bronx, but unfortunately they didn't have a translated title for the film in French or English and it wasn't a straight remake of Shaft or Dirty...
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Unless you've been living on another planet, we guess you're aware of the work of actor Michael Caine and his distinctive trademark cockney accent.So we won't bore you with a long biography and list of all his great films like Get Carter (not the 2000 remake) The Italian Job and Hannah and her sisters,...
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The colourful Schwabylon shopping and leisure centre had one hundred shops, a cinema, twelve restaurants, a beer garden, sports facilities, Roman spa, sauna, solarium, swimming pool and a skating rink. Located next door was a Holiday Inn which contained a three-story nightclub named after The Beatles...
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Sometimes minimal and simplistic graphic designs are the most effective way to sell your products, and here at VoEA we think this applies to these cool covers of Canadian-Latvian culture magazine Jauna Gaita (New Course) When the second world war finished many Latvian writers packed their bags and moved...
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Recently we've seen Roy Lichtenstein unveil a massive promotional poster for his first art exhibition and we've gazed at the Rock and Roll (and soul) billboards on Sunset strip. Now we cast our net a bit further as we take a look at some huge posters promoting music, films, vinyl records, televisions...
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If you're a fan of sixties aviation and hotel rooms with lot and lots of teak wood paneling then you're in the right place. This unusual airplane hotel suite is situated by the coast in Manuel Anton, Costa Rica. The owners of the hotel rescued the huge frame of the 1965 Boeing 727 from a San Jose...
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