VINTAGE TYPE Category
Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room (and its mad title sequence)
Posted on October 15, 2015 1 Comment
I just heard about Guy Maddin’s new film, The Forbidden Room; then watched the trailer, then watched an interview, and now I am ready to declare that Guy Maddin is one of my absolute favourite Canadians. Truly. I never use this word, but in this case it fits – he’s AWESOME. Awesome adjective 1. causing or inducing […]
Vintage Vector
Posted on December 3, 2013 2 Comments
Loving all things vector (and poly) at the moment. I’ve always loved vintage vector video game graphics from the late 70s and early 80s, mainly from Atari. Games like Asteroids, Tempest, Lunar Lander, Battle Zone and Star Castle were amazing, and kept me pumping in quarters. I actually owned a table top Tempest arcade game […]
Gerry Anderson Stamps
Posted on May 30, 2012 Leave a Comment
How did I miss these fantastic Gerry Anderson “Supermarionation” stamps when Royal Mail issued them last Autumn and Winter! The series showcased some of his puppet based TV shows from the 1960s: Thunderbirds, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90. Royal Mail also issued a series of Thunderbirds stamps with lenticular effects that […]
Vintage Souvenir Penants (Part 2)
Posted on May 13, 2012 1 Comment
Here’s the second part of my vintage souvenir penants post. The first one one last week featured vintage penants for U.S. destinations, and this week it’s all the Canadian destinations. These great old penants were discovered in my in-laws basement when doing a huge clear up. One of my fantasies is discovering nice old forgotten […]
Vintage Souvenir Penants (Part 1)
Posted on May 7, 2012 3 Comments
Recently discovered these wonderful vintage souvenir penants while clearing up my in-law’s basement. This series is of a bunch of US destinations (plus the RMS Queen Mary) all circa 1930s – 1960s Next week. I’ll show all the Canadian destinations. If you like these, you’ll enjoy my Vintage Luggage Tag post from a while back. […]
Bull Ring type
Posted on March 27, 2012 1 Comment
Just had a trip to the sunny, south of Spain and visited one of the few remaining bull fight rings in Mijas. No bull fights that day (thank goodness), but I did have a nice self-tour of this miniature bull ring, with my new camera and f0.95 lens. Love those ceramic seat numbers, and have […]
Age of Persuasion Titles
Posted on September 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Been working on main titles and inter-titles for a pilot episode of The Age of Persuasion with Bunbury Films. A proposed television series based on the popular CBC Radio series of the same name. AOP is a fabulously written, intricately researched, and highly entertaining survey of the history and impact of advertising. The images above […]
Vintage tire posters – Soho London
Posted on August 20, 2011 1 Comment
Been far too long since my last post. I’ve been meaning to show off these great old tire/oil posters that I discovered in a Soho parking garage a month of so back. I was shooting a music video in the space next door, and there they were! The posters must be circa 1950s, and are […]
Long live wood block type!
Posted on January 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
I was fortunate to catch a wonderful (and rare) vintage letterpress type show in Shoreditch, here in London, just days before it ended (thanks Jovanna). The amazing New North Press put on a show called “Reverting to Type” featuring an impressively curated array of prints, made entirely of block printing letterforms. At first glance, the […]
Bradbury’s Gallery: Posters for Dalston
Posted on December 11, 2010 1 Comment
Back wall featuring a rare Buster Keaton poster from the 1970s Woody Allen, Play it Again Sam poster from 1972 We’ve lived in Dalston, North London for about 3 years now, and though I wasn’t so sure about it early on, but I’m definitely coming around. The hip and cosy Tina We Salute You cafe […]
graphicdefiner.wordpress.com 