Posts Tagged with "Vintage"

Comic Book Sound Terminology

July 13, 2008

Thud, Slurp, Kliong, Boom, Splonk, Ffizoom!
El Estratografico’s Flickr set Retronomatopeya, documents the simple yet creative language used in comic books to convey sound.

Vintage Album Art

May 13, 2008

According to the manifesto on jl.incrowd’s Flickr set Vintage classical album cover graphics, “It was the pioneering graphic designer Alex Steinweiss, who first had the idea of ‘album cover art’. Prior to his efforts for Columbia Records beginning in 1939, the covers to multi-disc 78-rpm ‘album’ sets of records were fairly generic - often referred [...]

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Vintage Comic Book Ads

April 22, 2008

The weather here in Bordeaux has been cold and wet the last couple of days, and the flat I am staying in isn’t much better. It’s tiny, damp, dusty, doesn’t have a television and half the room’s ceiling is less than 4 feet in height (it’s kinda like the office in Being John Malkovich). Other [...]