cool reference sites

[Chris G]

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2 page gallery of Vintage Pin-Up playing cards:

Page 1:
vintage girly cards

Page 2:
vintage girly cards












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[Chris G]

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Another Gallery of 50's album cover art (2 pages):

(a bit hit or miss, but some good era fonts)


Dana's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art

More Wacked-Out Cover Art!

















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[Chris G]

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Found a nice flickr set of mid-century product packaging typography (small set, but nice stuff):

Found Type & Product - a photoset on Flickr


...and signage typography:

Found Type & Signage - a photoset on Flickr




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[whostolemybike]

I just stumbled across this page

WMC Clip Art Graphics

I think it is some kind of resource for people printing church bulletin, but the images are pretty awesome.

God shooting rain from his nipples:


And hanging out in some kind of cosmic, upside down vagina

[Chris G]

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For figure study source images...


Steve Chanks gives use:

Posemaniacs.com web based figure database

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micro gives us:

Virtual Pose CD image collection

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I contribute:

Poser figure software

And:

Daz 3D human 3D model collection



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[Chris G]

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PRINTEDPAGES.NET - Vintage Catalogs and Advertisements-Company

Vintage mid-century catalogs and print advertisements. Mostly from commercial, to-the-trade, companies.

Strangely, they specialize in "asbestos" advertisements.

Very good source for mid-century typography.







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[Plaidman]

Some really cool Book and Magazine Illustrations: BibliOdyssey

[jjwebste]

Don't know if this has been posted already:

Alphabet of Illustrators

The Alphabet of Illustrators, an index of Names

[scrojo]

Alphabet of Designers is better.