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Fabric Forest Signs
Fabric collages by Marta Pieczonko, who was born in 1980 in Warsaw and lives and works in Cologne. "forest sign I," 2010 "forest sign II," 2010 "forest sign III," 2010 "forest sign IV," 2010 "goodbye,"...
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The Bookplate Collection: Second Half
20 bookplates from the John Starr Stewart Ex Libris Collection at the University of Illinois Library PK at BibliOdyssey featured bookplates from the first half of this database Design by A....
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The whole world is a series of miracles
Illustrations from a 1928 edition of Andersen's fairy tales, from 50 Watts fave Takeo Takei Bio from the Kodomo No Kuni site:Takei was born in Suwa, Nagano prefecture in 1894. After studying at the...
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Shanghai Expression: Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 30s
As featured in the book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping About half of this 160-page book is devoted to the 1920s and 30s, when the ideas of writer and...
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Joanne Oldham
Sammy Harkham of Family recently edited and published a wonderful 48-page zine of artwork and memoirs by Joanne Oldham. I've included some of my favorite images and passages below. The memoir excerpts...
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Putukajutud: Insect Stories from Estonia
Illustrations by Vello Vinn for Helvi Jürisson's Putukajutud (Insect Stories, 1983, Estonia) Read more about the artist in a previous post on his work, and see another of his wild children's books...
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Twenty Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
I scanned these twenty postcards from the squat 1980s Austrian book Mail Art Anno Klimt, but searching tonight I see that a comprehensive collection is currently available titled Postcards of the...
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Space Teriyaki 5
Visions of space and the future in Japan in the 70s and 80s. What you are seeing here is a selection of scans from my ever-growing collection of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design....
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Ex Libris Mr. Reaper (9)
Bookplates from the collection of Richard Sica Antioukhin Helfenbein Durand Oliete unidentified artist unidentified artist Vereschagin Vadasz Kocak Missieri A bookplate by Richard Sica himself See all...
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Twenty-two posters by Charles Verschuuren
Dutch-American illustrator Charles Verschuuren (1891–1955) had a long career. Starting out as a teenage cartoonist for local papers in Tilburg, Netherlands, Verschuuren trained in Amsterdam and Paris...
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Ukrainian Space Invaders
I'm not sure how I stumbled on "J.B's" 2008 picasa gallery "UA_Ancient_Embroidery." I hoped to find out more about these scans before featuring them—I've been staring at them for months in...
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Takeo Aesop
Illustrations from a 1925 edition of Aesop's Fables, from 50 Watts fave Takeo Takei Bio from the Kodomo No Kuni site:Takei was born in Suwa, Nagano prefecture in 1894. After studying at the Hongo Yoga...
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Night Thoughts of William Blake
A couple weeks ago I opened at random the Selected Non-Fictions of Borges to the line:In 1717, he [Swift] said to Young, the author of Night Thoughts, "I am like that tree; I will begin to die at the...
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Living Lights
Illustrations from Living Lights: A Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables by Charles Frederick Holder (1887) Holder (1851–1915) sounds like a real character. He was considered the...
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Twenty-one More Ads from 1950s Japan
Here's a sequel to my previous post of 1950s Japanese ads. 1954 Seven scans come from the book 1950: Japanese Graphic Design in the '50s: The Designer Is Born (possibly still available from Amazon...
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The Bird
Illustrations by Carlos Mérida for The Bird by Janette Sebring Lowrey (1947) Previous post on Mérida (1891–1984): The Hungry Moon About the artist (from the back flap)Carlos Merida, born in Guatemala,...
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The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go
Illustrations from The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go (Boston, circa 1858) The illustrator is not credited though I would like to see more of his or her proto-Mike-Judge cats. There have been countless...
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The Monkey King
Shotaro Honda's illustrations for the 1939 children's book Son Goku (The Monkey King) I assume this is an adaptation of bits of the Chinese epic Journey to the West. The scans come from the database of...
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The Night Riders
Pages from Matt Furie's stunning wordless picture book The Night Riders (2012, McMullens) As a frequent visitor of 50 Watts might imagine just by looking at the cover, The Night Riders is my favorite...
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Lux-Lesebogen
Lux-Lesebogen was a miniature bi-weekly magazine for young people published in Germany between 1946 and 1964. The forgotten illustrator and graphic designer Karlheinz Dobsky designed the covers for...
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