Design annuals from the Art Directors Club

Here are three volumes of the Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art from the Art Directors' Club of New York. These were auctioned as a large 17-volume set on Heritage Auctions, and sold for $625. "These issues celebrate the finest in advertising art, featuring such artists or photographers as Arthur Rackham, Norman Rockwell, Edward J. Steichen, Miguel Covarrubias, Diane and Allan Arbus, and Thomas Hart Benton."

Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art 30 | Art Directors' Club of New York. 1951

Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art 33

Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art 34 from the Art Directors' Club of New York. 1955. Jacket design by George Giusti.

+Heritage Auctions

Parks and recreation

JO PIEPER (1873-1971) GRUGA ESSEN. 1929. (A park in essen, Germany)

Cartel turístico, Unión Gráfica S.L. Tolosa. Años 30 via

Lucien Peri | La Corse - PLM, 1925 ca. — Lucien Peri | La Corse - PLM, 1925 ca.

Matchbooks from my collection

Look at these! I love these old advertising matchbooks with the printed matches. I picked these up at a flea market many moons ago.

Madsen's, where shrimp is king! Long Beach, CA

From Bob Feagan's Coffee Shops, Los Angeles

Animation backgrounds

I stumbled across this cool blog a few years ago when researching the work of illustrator Mary Blair. It features hundreds of images of beautifully rendered backgrounds from years of animated films. The blog is still up, though the creator, Bob Richards stopped posting in 2010. Bob is now considering picking up where he left off, so be sure to visit and vote "yes".