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Old School

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Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book 1974


This catalog cover is more stunning than it has any right to be — the Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book 1974

From back when copy, cut and paste weren’t keyboard shortcuts.

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The cover of Print (America’s Graphic Design Magazine) July/August 1974

Well, it took 38 years for me to find out about it, then over a decade for me to track down a copy for myself, but now I have it! — Print (America’s Graphic Design Magazine), July/August 1974 — It has a feature story on art directing National Lampoon, and then they let National Lampoon take over a section of their publication for extra mayhem.

Wild.

These Suds Ain’t Duds

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Midcentury-ish boxes of soap of the following brands: Oxydol, Ivory Snow, Nola, Vel and Duz
Midcentury-ish boxes of soap of the following brands: Oxydol, Ivory Snow, Nola, Vel and Duz

This last Saturday was laundry day at the North Star Auction in Mandan, North Dakota.

Also, back in the day, laundry soap and dish soap were often the same soap.

Check out the sweet package art.

Sit on it.

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Magazine ad for Hart Schaffner & Marx found in a December 5, 1960 issue of Sports Illustrated

Magazine ad for Hart Schaffner & Marx found in a December 5, 1960 issue of Sports Illustrated

Great art direction for this menswear ad, oozing style and confidence, but now I want to find out more about the cool chair the suited dude is sitting in. Somebody thought it could be a Lucite chair but I’m not sure. Anyone know?

This Week in Ephemera

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This is a score! The entire 1916 year of McCall’s magazine and in beautiful condition, especially considering these twelve issues are over a hundred years old.

Wisdom

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Whisper admonished me for failing to reach a zen state because I stress about things I should no longer care about.

“If you give somebody a perfectly grilled steak and they take it and slather shampoo and gravel all over it and then complain that it isn’t any good, that’s on them, not you. Meow.”

Whisper is wise.

The art director must’ve fallen asleep before kerning this ad.

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Spotify-placed ad for Serta mattresses

The kerning (or lack thereof) of this Serta ad has left me tossing and turning.

And twitching.

Très bien.

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Elle magazine, 1952

The stunning cover to a 1952 issue of Elle magazine from France, part of a lot of five I received several weeks ago.