Beautiful, fanciful vintage fairies: Fairy art from the 1920s
These gorgeous illustrations of fairies and other fanciful creatures were featured in magazine ads for Djer-Kiss (pronounced "dear kiss") -- a line of... Click to read more...
Space age: Amazing retro futuristic homes of the ’60s
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.
Before the jeans: Gloria Vanderbilt launches a home decorating magazine (1975)
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.
See the light! Antique stained glass church window designs (1924)
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 is supposed... Click to read more...
A classic collection of vintage stencil designs (1910)
Here's a collection of stencils patterns from 1910, inspired by Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian and other classical designs.
Fantastic, fashionable and flamboyant eye makeup from 1965
Flamboyant designs open new worlds for makeup: Here's art in your eye
This is the year of the eye. The orb and its surroundings are getting more at... Click to read more...
Victorian graphic design: Stylized paint labels (1870s & 1880s)
These bits of well-preserved vintage graphic artistry come from the simply-named Paints Oils Varnishes catalog from F. W. Devoe Co. of New York, which... Click to read more...
St Paul’s street trolley: The Auto of the People (1904)
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 ba... Click to read more...
Paint, ink & sketch toys from Ohio Arts (1987)
The first Etch A Sketch produced on July 12, 1960. It was a big seller, and over the years, Ohio Art made several other creative, artistic toys -- suc... Click to read more...
Alphabet typefaces are ever-changing (1913)
In the days before we had a million and one different fonts from which to choose, the artistry of type was still a new phenomenon.
Alphabet is ev... Click to read more...
The vanning craze and custom paint jobs for vans (1977)
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.
Rube Goldberg in his own words (1922)
"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 tells her story (1987)
Shrinky Dinks inventor speaks to local students
By Randy Rendfeld
The inventor of the "Shrinky Dinks" told Edgewood Elementary students Thursday... Click to read more...
Custom cakes: So incredible – and they’re edible! (1982)
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 wild and crazy c... Click to read more...
Six scenes of Yellowstone National Park (1875)
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.
Silent films: Why so many old movies have been lost
Silent cinema was not 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.
A new alternative to paint and canvas: The beginning of artistic photography (1909)
Development of artistic photography
by Kathryn Rucker
That true artistic expression may be rendered by means of the camera is verified and demonst... Click to read more...
Etch-a-Sketch & Ohio Art toys give happiness (1972-1973)
It new and different every day
Ohio Art's world-famous drawing toy
As new as the day. As different as your dreams. Etch A Sketch will change right... Click to read more...
Latest in groovy pop art: Brillo pillow (1968)
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 an inflatab... Click to read more...
Antique silhouettes of women (1760-1827)
Before the advent of photography, there were limited ways to produce accurate likenesses of people. As an alternative to paintings, drawings and sculp... Click to read more...
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans become real
In 1962, Andy Warhol put on exhibition for the first time his Campbell's Soup Cans -- 32 separate canvases, each portraying a can of each of the varie... Click to read more...
Our heaven-born banner & Fate of Rebel flag (1861)
Our heaven born banner
This is a pro-Union patriotic print, evidently based on Frederic Edwin Church's small oil painting "Our Banner in the Sky" (... Click to read more...
Mona Lisa stolen in Paris (1911)
Amazingly, the Mona Lisa wasn't nearly as iconic in 1911 as it is today -- and, in fact, the theft of this Da Vinci painting was one thing that helped... Click to read more...
