Oomingmak Design Company makes some fantastic gig poster designs. I love the vintage color palette and the type work is spot on.
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Retarded Children Benefit Show
May 3, 2008 – 11:02 pm
I saw this photo of a roll of tickets for a “Retarded Children Benefit Show” and I had to post it. Apparently is was taken through the window of an abandoned movie theater. It almost looks like a photoshop, but I forget that “retarded” used to be politically correct back in the day.
Mime alphabet book, and other vintage children’s books
April 18, 2008 – 12:58 pm
This vintage mime alphabet book looks awesome, I wish the whole thing was scanned in. It comes from an pretty sweet flickr set of vintage children’s books.
Huge collection of vintage matchbook labels
April 2, 2008 – 10:21 am
I came across this huge Flickr set of matchbook labels from the 50′s and 60′s. There are hundreds of images in the set of mostly Eastern European labels. They are like tiny little vintage posters, and there are tons of nice ones to look at.
Huge collection of logos from the 1970′s
March 19, 2008 – 1:08 am
Here’s a great Flickr set of 121 pages of logos from the 1970′s scanned from the book “World of Logotypes”. Solid black on plain white, that’s the way to do it. None of those fancy gradients and reflection cop-outs that you see everywhere these days. Just pure balance, harmony, and simplicity. via Metafilter
1950′s Valentines Day Cards
February 7, 2008 – 12:34 pm
I love old greeting cards. There was a time when cards were a lot more personal in feel and the cards were just more meaningful before they got so commercialized. I enjoyed looking through this Flickr set of 1950′s Valentines day cards, and the crying dunce elephant was the saddest and cutest thing I had [...]