The vintage Spirograph toys let you create millions of colorful, startlingly beautiful extraordinarily intricate designs in infinite variety – all you needed were pens, paper and the kit’s plastic gears and wheels. Take a look!
Paint: Stylized product labels from the Victorian era Artist ivory black antique paint label Antique Victorian furniture paint label Florentine fresco colors – Turkey red
Here’s a collection of stencils patterns from 1910, inspired by Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian and other classical designs.
It took years to complete the construction of the Statue of Liberty – also known as Liberty Enlightening the World – but here are some peeks behind the scenes into how it was done!
These fantastic samples of eye makeup are the creations of Pablo, Elizabeth Arden’s makeup designer, and are done in a variety of techniques.
Vintage Etch-A-Sketch: 50 million moms can’t be wrong (1970s) Moms know, nothing draws out creativity like the Etch A Sketch magic screen. The power of
Remember apple head dolls – an early American craft with folk art roots that was popular again in the ’60s and ’70s? Find out how to make these shrunken apple dolls, and more about the art of dollmaking.
Trade cards, the granddaddy of today’s trading cards, were common in the 1800s, and often showed offbeat images that existed solely to build brand buzz. Here’s a strange set showing people as vegetables.
Silent movies were not part of a primitive style of filmmaking, but an alternate form of storytelling – with artistic triumphs equivalent to or greater than those of the sound films that followed.
Eva’s Visit to Fairy Land By Louisa May Alcott All Fairy-Land was dressed in flowers, and the soft wind went singing by, laden with their
What did the future look like from the ’60s? In this ad series for Motorola, commercial artist Charles Schridde depicted modernist homes of the future – and perfectly captured the era’s sleek style and space-age optimism.
Shortly before her clothing line debuted – and back when her son, Anderson Cooper, was 8 years old – the multi-talented heiress Gloria Vanderbilt came out with her own print magazine: Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home.
Origin of stained glass art The art of fitting together small pieces of glass into a pattern with a heavy lead binding about each piece
In 1962, Andy Warhol put his Campbell’s Soup Cans art on exhibit – then in 2012, Campbell’s rolled out special-edition cans of its tomato soup with Warhol-inspired labels.
Cover of the St Paul Globe’s Magazine Section – Sunday, July 10, 1904 The People’s Automobile With clang of gong and happy song, And laughter
Alphabet typefaces are suffering a change of form at the hands of modern sign painters, remarks the Philadelphia Record.
Vanning has become an American craze. Today it means to personalize a common van and build a lifestyle around it. Throngs of Americans are doing it. A key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork.
“I was as nervous as a poker player down to his last pants’ button, and every one of the hard-boiled old-timers in the art department knew it. “
Shrinky Dinks inventor speaks to local students By Randy Rendfeld The inventor of the “Shrinky Dinks” told Edgewood Elementary students Thursday not to let their
Custom cakes: So incredible — and they’re edible! Nancy Frank has a job that’s so much fun you could almost call it play. She makes
Here are six beautiful views of Yellowstone National Park, as seen by artist Thomas Moran and published by American chromolithographer Louis Prang & Company in 1875.
Development of artistic photography by Kathryn Rucker That true artistic expression may be rendered by means of the camera is verified and demonstrated by several
The latest in groovy pop art. Really flashy! What a great conversation piece for your living room or den! The famous Brillo box made into
Da Vinci picture stolen in Paris Italian painter’s masterpiece, “Mona Lisa,” disappears from the Louvre gallery Prefect of police and head of detectives close museum
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