retro Archive
popjects
What happens when two timeless American design trends collide? This! Witness a classic slice of Americana, the 1930s Kit-Cat Clock, painted in Pantone colors to reflect the cultural
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vintage
Over 500 whimsical objects have just been on exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The nostalgia-inducing art and toy designs are all connected by Swedish social theorist
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sculpture
This one’s filed under “Trick” (as in “trick-or-treat”). For Grass Hut’s Spooky Shop Halloween art show, Joseph Edwards contributed five throwback novelty art toys. You know, the kinds
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Art
When I was growing up, I loved reading MAD Magazine. (I also read Cracked for a while. Anybody remember Cracked?) I was born in March of 1977, the
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vintage
Welcome to The MINT (Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys) Museum of Toys: “the world’s first purpose-built museum for toys”. After reading my story on France’s fantastic collection of vintage toys (Les
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vintage
France’s Museum of Decorative Arts has digitized a great library of vintage toys (or ‘jouets’ as they whimsically call them). It is utterly comprehensive and wonderful. If any Decorative Arts librarians
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Pop CULTure
In December of 1948, Look magazine ran this gender-dividing personality quiz to ascertain how masculine or feminine you are. It begins with “You can be a real he-man
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Pop CULTure
Check out this video for “Get By” by UK-based Delta Heavy. For reasons unclear, it features 80s toys and games being chopped up and put through a meat
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vintage
Psycho Ceramics were a range of zany novelty ceramics made by US-based Kreiss company and manufactured in Japan between the 1960s and 1970s. They are characterized by a
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vintage
Frank Kozik, creator of the Smorkin’ Labbit, knows a thing or two about cute vintage advertising. Yesterday’s controversy over cannibalism and cake left me with a bad taste
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