The Imaginary World: “1949 NWCA CANDY SALESMAN BOOK. These pages all came form a 1949 candy salesman book – this is a good cross section of the candy that was available to the national market at that time.
Category Archives: Graphics
Vintage octopus pulp covers
Francesca Myman: Beware the tentacles of these maurading cephalopods (including nautilus, squid, cuttlefish, and octopus).
Animated engines
Matt Keveney: Animated GIFs of internal combustion, steam, and Stirling engines.
Atlas of cyberspace
Cyber-Geography: Various representations of cyberspace; last updated in early 2004.
Amazing optical illusions
eyetricks: Source for optical illusions, brain teasers, games, 3D images and other mind teasing oddities.
Medicine and Madison Avenue
Duke University: This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or “Madison Avenue.” The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.
Gene(sis): contemporary art explores human genomics
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics: Presents some of today’s most powerful new artwork reflecting recent developments in genomics. This exhibition also demonstrates the impact of genetics on artistic practice and on notions of the artist-subject. (Flash intro might not work in Safari, try going straight to an artist.)
Olduvai George
Olduvai George: “Self-portraiture may be a pretentious beginning (I’m the one on the left), but then I’ve chosen this garish color scheme and put myself in the header. Hopefully, it won’t blind too many of you. I should mention that I don’t condone underage drinking, but Australopithecines probably matured faster than we do today and there was no danger of him driving.
Perception puzzles, visual perception, optical illusions and paradoxes
Flash Cards II
Pirelli calendar
Pirelli: Flashy
Stamps of the Soviet era
Stamp Russia Art and Stamp Collectors Group present selected Stamps and Postal Stationery of the Soviet Russia and USSR from 1918 to 1990s, complete mint sets and single stamps, also used stamps of the same years.
Today’s Inspiration
A place for those with an interest in illustration from the 40s and 50s to share their knowledge, views and opinions. Also see Leif Peng Cartoon Art.
Stupid Comics
Stupid Comics: “Since it’s November, that means Thanksgiving and turkeys. Here at STUPID COMICS we can’t think of more appropriate turkey than STARDUST THE SUPER WIZARD, one of the great Golden Age creations of that great artist Fletcher Hanks.”
Papercraft Toys
Barnacle Press Barnacle Press has posted a collection of 1922/1923 papercraft toys.
Fruit Crate Labels
National Apple Museum
Thirteen pages of fruit crate labels representative of the labels that were the principal advertising medium used by commercial fruit growers to advertise their produce to brokers, wholesalers, and buyers from the late 1800s well into the 1900s.
Eric A. Hegg Photographs
::: Eric A. Hegg Photographs :::: 736 photographs documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes from 1897 to 1901. Images include depictions of frontier life in Dawson City, the Yukon Territory, and Skagway and Nome, Alaska.
Bad Mags
Bad Mags: compilation of really bad magazines. (Via Boing Boing.)
