Tag Archives: illustration
Art of the Luggage Label
A respectably large collection (800+) of luggage labels. (I’ve been rummaging about in old draft posts, deleting most of them, with a view to finishing and posting the remainder. This one’s been sitting there for over a year, and it … more…
Epicurean Drug Fiend
Look what I picked up in one of the local charity shops this week: a rather lovely 1970s edition (Samuel Weiser, New York, 1970) of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend. The cover shows a man who clearly knows … more…
Almanac of Precariomancy
XX The Delegate The Delegate is the one who talks without ever saying anything, the one who reaps without having sown. The Delegate stands for the party asking for your vote without making your life any bettter, for the union … more…
Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842
Persons Represented, Macbeth, Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842 A recent plunge into the dustier regions turned up a copy of this book which I only vaguely recall owning, and have no clear recollection of buying. I only have a single volume … more…
london-hq-sunny
Here’s another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it’s London, and if you’re as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that … more…
Plan59 :: Future Rocketship by Bohn, 1944
Revolutionary Rockets! | Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1944 Plan59 has lots of mid-twentieth century techno-fantasy illustration along these lines. Looking over these pictures of beautiful streamlined rocket ships (like the cars and planes of the time), I wonder at what … more…
Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny
I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…
Lohse, 1938, Zurich
Cover for a brochure for Escher-Wyss Zürich, designed by Richard Lohse 1938 ( via FFFFOUND!)
more tentacles
I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…
Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima
Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima Another of those pics, from the endless stream of them flowing before me, that happens to go with the decor around here. What are you gonna do? (via FFFF again)