Showing results 1–8 of 17 for the tag: vintage
The first tablet most of us ever owned wasn’t the iPad. It was the Etch A Sketch. A new project up for funding on Kickstarter, the Etcher is an iPad case with functioning Etch A Sketch knobs that turn your iPad into a real Etch A Sketch. Etcher adds functional knobs to the iPad. As…
This awesome film is from 1972 and talks about Polaroid film and the SX-70 camera. The images, sound, typography and subject are pure old-school. The camera and film are wonderfully complicated and this video explains how it all works in a very ‘PBS-like’ way. Makes me feel like I’m watching a video in my third…
Aperture, an analog film store in Cleveland, Ohio, has teamed with The Impossible Project to be an official retailer of their film. For the holiday season they’ve put together a limited edition holiday package which includes a Polaroid 600 series camera, a pack of Impossible UV+ film, and a killer silkscreened gift box (signed &…
We’ve posted people making clocks out of recycled material before, but these were awesome enough to post. Pavel Sidorenko makes laser-cut clocks by cutting silhouettes into vinyl records and adding a working clock in the middle. The results are striking clock designs that are perfect for anyone into music, who also is interested in time.…
Check out this awesome short film by Danny Cooke about Sign Writer David A Smith: David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work,…
Oxxford Clothes, out of Chicago, is the only place in the United States that still tailors suits entirely by hand. This beautifully made video shows a glimpse into their painstaking process, all by hand, stitch by stitch, that they’ve been doing since 1916. The workmanship is astounding. I’m sure these are far out of my…
What would advertising for social media giants have looked like in the 1950s? Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda made this series of vintage ads for YouTube, Facebook, Skype and Twitter. The campaign titled “Everything Ages Fast” was used to promote the Maximidia Seminars. Continue reading for full-size posters :)
These had me dying. Just so happens I am planning a trip to Vegas this year…and now I know just where I’ll be putting my saved cash! All my friends can expect something from Blue Q sometime this year… (via Truly Smitten)
