Looking for a nice mid-century modern home? This might be a place to start. For a couple of smaller and more affordable alternatives check out these - Versadome , Modern Cabana.
The photos above are from a great book called Still Life (1983) that Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman put together. It's full of color saturated Hollywood stills from the 50's/60's. Cover art (detail at top) is by one of my favorite illustrators- Mick Haggerty.
The labels on these retro cans definitely make spray painting things look like fun. Did de Bois unknowingly foresee the phenomenon of graffiti art with it's beret sporting aerosol artiste pictured on the label?
I'm not sure when I started picking up coffee mugs, but I've managed to fill up a few boxes with them. The mugs all bear imprints representing things like past conventions, long ago taken trips, or company employment. I've started taking some out to display on my Weekly Mug Shot site. I add a new mug every week.
Whether it's an abandoned amusement park or a boarded up hotel there's an eerie intrigue to abandoned structures. This site takes you inside a few.
Above are a couple of nice cigarette package designs (with vintage cigs still inside) that my folks brought back from Havana in the 50's. Unfortunately the lady in red on the second box fell victim to the impartial guillotine of the packaging seal.
This is a piece I did a few years ago for an article on email spam blockers. With soccer being in the news so much the past few weeks I was reminded of it and pulled the art out of my archived files. The illustration was revised a little, including taking the email platform logos, that were now mostly outdated, off of the jersey.
