Vintage Italian graphic designs

From laura@popdesign’s Flickr set:

Dutch picture book covers

Adoringly observed over at BibliOdyssey, these covers originated from the early 19th to the 20th centuries:

Several more where these came from. Click over to BibliOdyssey HERE, and check out their beautifully extensive archives while you’re at it.

Pan Tu Nie Stał

Pan tu nie stał, meaning You Were Not Standing Here, is a Polish design blog created by sociologist Justyna Burzyńska and graphic designer Maciej Lebiedowicz, who are heavily inspired by vintage Polish designs from the 1930s onward. But that’s not all: they also have a shop by the same name, which features clothing, home decor, accessories, and paper products. Oh, and did I mention that they ROCK?

Just look:

All of the beautifully vibrant and inspiring images above are borrowed from their blog, which you can access (along with their shop) HERE.

***WEEKEND PROMOTION: FREE SHIPPING!***

I hope those of you who celebrate it had a lovely and appropriately filling Thanksgiving yesterday!

Well, another day, another promotion. This weekend, from 12AM on Black Friday morning through 11:59PM on Cyber Monday evening, I will be offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders in my Etsy shop. Even family trees and lettering projects. Oh, but keep in mind: the deadline for holiday orders was yesterday. But any trees or lettering projects ordered now should be completed after the Christmas/New Year holiday (aka, once I’m sane again).

I also have a couple new items in my shop, which premiered this evening: two new sets of smaller gift tags, involving red and green paisleys (I love paisleys) and baker’s twine. And buttons if you like. Because apparently I’ve acquired a slight button obsession.

A couple pics:

Did I mention that the first set pictured above is only $1.50? And that there’s free shipping all weekend? What the freak are you waiting for?!

More images and info HERE.

French Friday: Babar!

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***THANKSGIVING DAY PROMOTION!***

***HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL!***

I hope you’re having a lovely, cozy, pumpkin pie-filled day.

In honor of this, one of my oh-so favorite holidays, I wanted to show my gratitude for you all and offer a special Thanksgiving Day promotion in my Etsy shop: Place any family tree order by midnight E.S.T. tonight and receive FREE SHIPPING! Trees range in size from 5″x7″ (New Baby Tree) to 18″x24″ (Large Family Tree). Shipping can get expensive… but not today!

Additional reminder: Today is the deadline to order a family tree if you would like to make sure that it’s shipped in time for the holidays.

My family trees are hand-drawn, hand-cut, hand-glued, and a lot of other entirely handmade acts. I customize them exactly how you wish, taking into account your color preferences, name and label preferences, framing preferences, etc.. Please feel free to convo me if you have  any questions or if you’d simply like to brainstorm! For info and images, click over to my Etsy shop HERE.

Happy Thanksgiving, vintage humour style!

Some of my favorite vintage postcard images from riptheskull’s Thanksgiving Flickr set:

And these aren’t funny, but I love the designs and hope you will, too:

Ted Staunton’s Record Labels

If you haven’t yet visited Ted Staunton’s Gallery of Record Labels from the first half of the twentieth century, you have been MAJORLY missing out.

Here are some reasons why:

I can’t freakin’ get enough of them. And there are a bajillion more where these came from. Check out the beautifully extensive gallery HERE.