Mid Century Modern Art Inspiration
Vintage stuff is always a good source of inspiration. Posters, ads, stamps... but how about matchboxes?
While surfing on Flickr, I found these on a group called: "the Mid Century Modern - Sticker, Label + Stamp Club group icon", and I loved it. There are Russian , Hungarian, and other countries' matchboxes from the WW II period. Cool look, sweet design. Man, they sure knew how to design crazy matchboxes.
I guess this are pretty good. "Kill a couple enemies, have a smoke."
I SO need fire while I'm taking a shower.
I guess it reads "Freakish Experimental War Pets" or something close to it.
Have a smoke, get cancer, lose weight.
Reminds me of Franz Ferdinand. Don't ask me why.
Now i'm just getting confused. A kid having a shake?
Oh, c'mom. Be creative. That's too obvious. Haha.
I don't think these matches are supposed to light regular cigarettes. "Trippin' far far away".
Althought my favorite one is a sticker, if it was a matchbox, it would say: "Use these matches... or DIE".
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Great!
That is so cool~~
I agree with you 100%
Thank you for sharing this with us
--Bob
The beast one is hilarious... :D
Aha, nice CCCP (USSR) art, I have a similar looking one on my wall :)
So great
Thank you for sharing this
I bought a packet of Polish Soup with a very similar style of artwork on the front.
I love this style of graphics, it reminds of those Czech art cartoons that we used to see on the TV a while ago.
Brilliant stuff.
this is so cool !
i'm from germany and some of the ads are for a food-store which is still around here.
I bet nobody was thinking at that time that advertising can be pushed FAR OVER that limit. Specially in those communist countries.
Now we have hi-tech gadgets and tons of inspiration materials to choose from, but only few ideas can step forward
yeah :D Some of them was in polish :) My Country
Super, Pozdrawiam wszystkich :)
lol
That was a nice collection!
Enjoying these trips down memory lane
"I guess it reads "Freakish Experimental War Pets" or something close to it."
Not even close:D It reads "Warsaw television institution", but i'd liked your version more:)
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