tim and i were reading the latest LCBO food & drink journal today, and we were talking about one particular ad. the ad showed how much difference the paint can make, where as they actually have not only repainted the room but changed the bed, side tables, added a headboard, absolutely new matching modern set of linens, side lamps, a huge vintage/art deco ish poster instead of the smallish awkwardly framed smaller ones, a new white armchair… and of course they want us to think a $30 can of paint did all that.
regardless.
the poster in particular caught my eye. so i did some brave ebaying, and now i’m drooling over these:
WORLD´S FAIR CHICAGO OLD – POSTER.
ROSSLI CIGARS OLD AD – POSTER.
LOVE this one SO much: POWDER PUFF NUDE GIRL ITALIAN VINTAGE POSTER!
MELE ITALIAN SHOPPING FASHION – great shapes, colors (!)
these are small, but would look fantastic in a kitchen area: 2 VINTAGE ITALIAN KITCHEN PASTA CHEF SPAGHETTI POSTERS
maybe i can shoot something closer to this. but i like the abstractness of that style of drawing! (this picture is not mine:)
DONT YOU BLASPHEMY THE $30 PAINT! IT COMES WITH ALL THE EXTRA SHIT!
I’m also having a bit of an itch for vintage posters. I was at the bank yesterday and they only had aviation themed posters. They had these two, among others:
http://tinyurl.com/qsfek
http://tinyurl.com/rayt4
I probably stared at the Clipper 314 during my whole 20 minutes in there. And at 24×36, it was really cool. Maybe I can make something similar myself. Still, no poster will ever be as amazing as an insane mural of the space shuttle over Earth that I saw at the main Post Office here. It mustve been like 20 feet wide by 10 feet tall at least.
*nod* i’m a bigtime fan of that kind of art deco vintage advertising. i have a couple of travel ads like that in my bedroom. i love them :)