Worker-Dandyist.
Talent(lessness) behind Proletkult Graphik.
Listener of boss sounds from swing to garage to punk to folk to Northern.
Bad, bad Lindy hopper.
Proudly proletarian Red.
Lover of the nylon-clad and high-heeled female leg.
Hater of almost everything but especially averse to fashion (as opposed to style), post-modernist nonsense, the destruction of language, laminate flooring and wankers who leave dogshit everywhere.
(I will also moan periodically about the state of modern day trousers and the idiots who wear them.)
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suicideblonde:Dorian Leigh photographed by Milton Greene in 1950
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Home medicine from Every Woman’s Doctor Book, 1930s.
Razionale from the Nebiolo type foundry, 1935.
From The Encyclopaedia of Typefaces by Berry, Johnson, Jaspert; third edition, 1962.
Marcel-waved bob from The Ruth D. Maurer Handbook of Beauty Culture, 1931.
Vacillation exercise for firm cheeks from Modern Beauty Culture by Maria Verni, 1933.
Beautifying the shoulders from Modern Beauty Culture by Maria Verni, 1933.
Sterling silver ring by Margaret De Patta. From Design Quarterly 33, 1955. Year that ring was made is not mentioned.
The world’s smallest fire station.
From Picture Post, September 16th 1939.
We vegetarians are currently having a good chuckle at the carnivores’ faux indignance at being served dead horse instead of dead cow as if the slaughter industry was previously a paragon of moral virtue.
Detail from a Fry’s Sandwich Chocolate ad from Picture Post, September 16th 1939.
Cover art by Earle Bergey.
From The Book of Hints and Wrinkles, undated.
Another typeface inspired by Pen Lettering published by The Blandford Press for The Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co., 1930.
‘Blob’ lettering from Pen Lettering published by The Blandford Press for The Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co., 1930.
‘German Poster Alphabet’ from Pen Lettering published by The Blandford Press for The Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co., 1930.
Combined billy club and tear gas gun patented in 1932.
Talking stockings from The American, October 1939.
