September 2009
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August 2009
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“New Yorkers will lose one of their finest... →
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'I was born in 1922 in Fresno, CA. From the git-go... →
Bookmark Charlie Allen.
He worked as an ad illustrator during 50’s and through the 70’s. Now he’s a blogger like the rest of us schmoes. Allen scans the ads he drew and writes some fabulous, sparkling commentary about them, cultural context and all. Here is his flickr set!
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hello, I wrote some footnotes over at a beloved... →
Penn station, tight rope walkers, eternity, etc. Please enjoy.
DRAPER. KINSEY. CAMPBELL. PEGGY.
DRAPER. KINSEY. CAMPBELL. PEGGY.
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We, the young people, whom you so rightly fear
When the two young ad boys try to help Don understand the political and aesthetic milieu of young coffee consumers, they read from the 1962 manifesto by the Students for a Democratic Society. You can read the full manifesto here.
To give you a taste for the turbulent times ahead for the men of Madison Ave and the NYC elite, here’s a diagnosis of youth culture from the 64 year old...
“One [medieval-Renaissance] masque group was known as the ‘Société...”
– Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society.
The painting in Pete's office →
A B-rate Molohly-Nagy knock off? Or the real thing? We don’t recognize the print. Can you help?
Something on Molohly Nagy, a dynamo of modernist art, in the meantime:
Through the 1920s, Moholy-Nagy was part of the new artistic movement sweeping across Europe, a revolutionary movement in which representational and story-telling art was jettisoned in favour of the abstract, primordial,...
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The Draper Effect →
“Her eye-popping colors, oversize prints, and controlled flourishes once defined urban interior sophistication. Now the exuberantly anti-Minimalist Dorothy Draper is front and center again.”
