The ‘Refacing Government Tender‘ series on Flickr just killed me. Someone went in and refaced 1, 5, 10 and 20 dollar bills with drawings over the faces of the presidents on the bills. It’s a brilliant idea and the results are hilarious.
Wow, I seriously defy you to just try and find something more awesomely gratifying than Ben Pearce’s Flickr sets. Hours of pure enjoyment. His Retro set is classic.
You will need an account however, due to a little 70’s style nudity. A little retro nudity never hurt anyone.
The description of the unique and totally radical Vintage Science Flickr image pool is as follows:
“Remember those oh-so-dated science books from back in the day? No? Well, here’s your chance to check ’em out. Images from science books of the ’40’s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. This also includes children’s books that have a science theme to them, like space,, astronauts, chemistry, physics, etc. Even books that feature what the future could be like, as long as it’s presented as fact (or what they thought might be fact).”
I love this kind of stuff and was totally psyched to find another group of like-minded strangers who shared my nerdy sentiment.
A coworker of mine was sifting through this Flickr collection earlier this week. I noticed some really interesting images flashing across his screen and inquired as to what he was looking at and he said someone had emailed him a link to this really interesting collection of 1950’s through 70’s advertising.
The account claims that you can find Posters, Magazine Advertisements, Brochures, Booklets, Publishing, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Packaging, Logotypes, Trade-Marks, Letterheads, Exhibitions, Show-windows… Graphic design, illustrations and printed artwork in general all from the the 50’s and 60’s era. It’s an interesting study in design and there is definitely a bit of inspiration to be found.
Wow, I mean wow. There is somewhere around 55 pages full of outstanding examples of graphic design and typography dating way way back, all carefully gathered and catalogued at the Flickr account of Insect54. I spent something like an hour just clicking from one page to the next, totally inspired by everything I saw. It is a great resource for any apiring designer to find fantastic historical references to great Graphic Design. Thanks to whoever the owner of the account may be for taking the time to put it all together for the rest of us to view.
