Vintage Advertising Designs

Print and fabric designs based on 1950s advertising, including product / crate labels, matchbooks, and menus

Prints

QwkDog Design Bernstein Fish Grotto
QwkDog Design How to Eat Maine Lobster
QwkDog Design Cain Mr. Lobster
QwkDog Design Trainers Seafood
QwkDog Design Old Pals Salmon
QwkDog Design Parity Salmon
QwkDog Design Gingham Dog Food
QwkDog Design Special Lemons

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Curtis Kitchens: Planning the Modern Kitchen

Curtis Companies, based in Clinton, Iowa, was already known for architectural woodwork, millwork, doors, windows, and built-in home components. By...

Harry Bertoia for Knoll, 1962

The 1962 Knoll catalog for Harry Bertoia’s chairs captures a well-established modern design classic at the point where it had...

Knoll in 1949: Modern Design As a System

The 1949 Knoll catalog captures the company at an important early point, when Knoll was helping move modern design from...

Eero Saarinen’s Pedestal Collection: Knoll 1970

This 1970 Knoll International catalog, La Collezione di Saarinen, presents Eero Saarinen’s Pedestal Collection as both furniture and design argument....

Knoll’s 1954 Index of Contemporary Design

By 1954, Knoll was no longer simply selling modern furniture. It was selling a fully formed idea of contemporary living...

Duro Chrome’s Commercial Chrome Furniture of 1938

By 1938, Duro Chrome Corporation of St. Louis was part of a crowded and competitive market for chrome-accented commercial furniture....

Gilkie Camp Trailers of 1934: Your Vacation Home on Wheels

The 1934 Gilkie Camp Trailers catalog captures an early moment in American recreational travel, when the automobile was changing not...

The Zephyr Vanity: A Rare Early Streamline Survivor

The Heywood-Wakefield Zephyr vanity is one of the earliest pieces from the company’s early Streamline period. Produced around 1936–1937, Zephyr...

Restoring a Heywood-Wakefield M276 Corner Cabinet

I purchased this harder-to-find cabinet from a friend along with the two Streamline armchairs shown in the photo. Produced roughly...

When California Pottery Found Its Color

This 1937 article from California — Magazine of Pacific Business captures California pottery at the moment it was becoming a...

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Date

April 18, 2020

Category

Fabric Design, Print Design, Vector Art