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Ads with Cartoon Elements

Well, whuddya know–looks like fellow Retro Kid Leif Peng got Boing Boinged. And it’s worth it, too. Previously mentioned Leif has accumulated a nice collection of mid-century Ads w/ Cartoon Elements. Go there and see just how keen living was during that time.

Oh, and be sure to sniff around the rest of Leif’s photosets. He’s got over a hundred sets featuring many classic illustrators (big and not-so big), such as Al Parker, Bob Peak, and Robert Fawcett. It’s like stumbling upon a virtual illustrative library. Organized alphabetically, of course. Go and know your past.

  • mart

    Great find. Nice selection and scanning by Leif.
    I have to say though that I hate Flickr’s navigation failure with respect to when you decide you want to view the pix at “different sizes”. Once you click on that the navigation switches mode and your choice of the previous or next picture are removed. If you want to view an entire set at “original size” then you are SOL. SmugMug.com allows this and does a far better job of letting the “author” customize the galleries.

  • mart

    Great find. Nice selection and scanning by Leif.
    I have to say though that I hate Flickr’s navigation failure with respect to when you decide you want to view the pix at “different sizes”. Once you click on that the navigation switches mode and your choice of the previous or next picture are removed. If you want to view an entire set at “original size” then you are SOL. SmugMug.com allows this and does a far better job of letting the “author” customize the galleries.

  • mart

    And the lettering work in so many of these is stunning. Hand-drawn in a way that is now tragically rare. You Drawn people might be well advised not to overlook the under-appreciated, yet enormous skill of lettering artists and even of typographers and type designers. To a certain extent, we live in their world more than we do the illustrators’.

  • mart

    And the lettering work in so many of these is stunning. Hand-drawn in a way that is now tragically rare. You Drawn people might be well advised not to overlook the under-appreciated, yet enormous skill of lettering artists and even of typographers and type designers. To a certain extent, we live in their world more than we do the illustrators’.

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/ Ward

    Oh, I completely agree when it comes to the lost art of hand lettering. It amazes me so to see such rich letterforms that were created by the illustrator for each ad and/or article.

    Regarding Flickr: I can see where you’re coming from about having to jump out of the navigation, but most people (like myself) don’t necessarily need to see the original size (in many cases the pics are over 2K pixels wide) when you are just browsing. The size that they give you is plenty fine for me to see what I’m looking at. And if we had to view an entire set at original size can you imagine just how long the download times would be? Plus, Flickr’s overall look and design is still eons better than smugmug.com or any other picture sharing format. It’s still my choice and I’m stickin’ to it.

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com Ward

    Oh, I completely agree when it comes to the lost art of hand lettering. It amazes me so to see such rich letterforms that were created by the illustrator for each ad and/or article.

    Regarding Flickr: I can see where you’re coming from about having to jump out of the navigation, but most people (like myself) don’t necessarily need to see the original size (in many cases the pics are over 2K pixels wide) when you are just browsing. The size that they give you is plenty fine for me to see what I’m looking at. And if we had to view an entire set at original size can you imagine just how long the download times would be? Plus, Flickr’s overall look and design is still eons better than smugmug.com or any other picture sharing format. It’s still my choice and I’m stickin’ to it.

  • AP

    I love the chest hair.

  • AP

    I love the chest hair.

  • http://leifpeng.com/ leifpeng

    Hey thanx for the plug, Ward! I wanted to add a bit of bkgrd re: hand-lettering… I’m old enough to have been around for the demise of the type houses. That’s where agencies and magazines would send out to to have all their type elements set. Most type was done with huge “compositers” – sort of pre-computer computers, but headlines would often be done by hand lettering specialists who worked in “quiet rooms”. These guys were absolute masters. When desktop publishing arrived they were all thrown out of work as were the like stat-camera operators and paste-up artists. God only knows what happened to them all… it was truly the end of an artform.

  • http://leifpeng.com Leif

    Hey thanx for the plug, Ward! I wanted to add a bit of bkgrd re: hand-lettering… I’m old enough to have been around for the demise of the type houses. That’s where agencies and magazines would send out to to have all their type elements set. Most type was done with huge “compositers” – sort of pre-computer computers, but headlines would often be done by hand lettering specialists who worked in “quiet rooms”. These guys were absolute masters. When desktop publishing arrived they were all thrown out of work as were the like stat-camera operators and paste-up artists. God only knows what happened to them all… it was truly the end of an artform.