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Luigi Nicholas Mangione

2026-04-12T15:22:00.003-03:00

Luigi Mangione

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, born May 6, 1998, is an American man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

fter reading Is Luigi immorally hot? by Juliene Posture I made this portrait. I usually create my own covers for the articles I am posting on Bluesky and Mastodon. This is a composition made with a vintage image of Saint Sebastian and vintage hearts I found, probably on RawPixel, a website with hundreds of free images. I am personally picking everything from the Public Domain search. Check it.

Selection of Serif & Display typefaces from Google Fonts

2024-04-09T12:21:00.057-03:00

Denn die Todten reiten schnell

few days ago I was looking for a font similar to an inktrap typeface I saw on a TV Literary show on TV Brasil. I found it. So I want to share with you some beautiful and bold fonts from the Google library I found in my quest.
The TV show name is Trilha de Letras (Trilha recebe o historiador, escritor e compositor Luiz Antonio Simas) And here you have a screenshot:

Quote:

A cidade, em meio ao cenário deslumbrante, foi forjada na espoliação dos habitantes originais, na violência da escravização, nos projetos higienistas das elites contra pretos e pobres.

The city, in the midst of the dazzling scenery, was forged in the dispossession of the original inhabitants, in the violence of enslavement, in the hygienist projects of the elites against Black people and the poor.

Luiz Antonio Simas

Here we go.

1.- Suranna

The Telugu is designed and developed by Purushoth Kumar Guttula in 2013 and made available by Silicon Andhra under the SIL Open Font License v1.1. The Latin is designed by Cyreal, a type foundry in Moscow Russia, and originally published as Prata. The Suranna project is led by Appaji Ambarisha Darbha, a type designer based in Hyderabad, India. To contribute, see github.com/appajid/suranna
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Suranna

2.- Viaoda Libre

Viaoda Libre is a display family inspired by Vietnamese cultural symbolism.
Designed by Gydient & ViệtAnh Nguyễn
https://gydient.com/
IG: gydient
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Viaoda+Libre

3.- Bigshot One

Bigshot One is a contemporary Didone.
Designed by Gesine Todt
IG: gesinetodtdesign
https://www.gesine-todt.de/
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bigshot+One

4.- Libre Caslon Display

Libre Caslon Display is the display version of Libre Caslon Text. The family is optimized for web headlines.
Designed by Impallari Type
https://www.impallari.com/fonts
Twitter: @impallaritype
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Caslon+Display

5.- Półtawski Nowy

Półtawski Nowy is a digitisation project the Antykwa Półtawskiego typeface. A key aspect of the design of the digital version of the typeface from 1928 was the approach to the issue of developing the shape of characters from sources.
To contribute see github.com/kosmynkab/Poltawski-Nowy
Designed by Adam Półtawski, Mateusz Machalski (IG: machalski.studio) , Borys Kosmynka, Ania Wieluńska.
Web: https://capitalics.wtf + https://typoteka.pl/en/designer/adam-poltawski
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poltawski+Nowy

6.- Kavoon

Kavoon is a display face based on experiments with brush and ink.
Designed by Viktoriya Grabowska
https://viktoriyagrabowska.com
Foundry: Sorkin Type Co sorkintype.com
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Kavoon

7.- Metal

Metal is a Khmer font with a design similar to the Khmer Italic metal types published in Cambodia before 1970.
Designed by Danh Hong
Blog: https://khmertype.blogspot.com/
To contribute, see github.com/danhhong/Metal
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Metal

8.- Tapestry

Tapestry is a Roman calligraphic family with a slight rustic and country appearance.
To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/tapestry
Designed by Robert Leuschke
Bio at Devroye: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27562.html
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Tapestry

9.- Bodoni Moda

Bodoni Moda is a no-compromises Bodoni family, built for the digital age.
Designed by Owen Earl.
The Bodoni Moda project is designed by Owen Earl (indestructible type*). To contribute, see github.com/indestructible-type/Bodoni
https://indestructibletype.com/Home.html
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bodoni+Moda

10.- Kalnia

Kalnia is a variable font with weight and width axes designed with high contrast and refined terminals, drawing inspiration from the Victorian era.
Designed by Frida Medrano IG: fridaemg
To contribute, see github.com/fridamedrano/Kalnia-Typeface
https://www.fridamedrano.com/
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Kalnia

11.- Gloock

Gloock is a contemporary high-contrast serif typeface intended for display use.
To contribute, see github.com/duartp/gloock.
Designed by Duarte Pinto.
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gloock

12.- Young Serif

Young Serif is a heavy weight old style serif typeface, taking inspiration from Plantin Infant or ITC Italian Old Style.
To contribute, please see github.com/noirblancrouge/YoungSerif.
Designed by Bastien Sozeau
https://noirblancrouge.com/
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Young+Serif

13.- Literata

Literata is a distinct variable font family for digital text.
To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/literata
Design by TypeTogether
https://www.type-together.com/
Twitter: @TypeTogether
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Literata

14.- Bricolage Grotesque

Bricolage Grotesque is a collage of lots of different things: historical sources, technical decisions and personal feelings. It started as a fork of Mayenne Sans, an open-source single weight font designed by Jérémy Landes (Studio Triple). It evolved by reinforcing cues from French sources and British sources: the compressed weights lean more towards the anxious and wonky tones of Grotesque Nº9 and the regular weights have a bit more of Antique Olive's relaxed and confident attitude.
To contribute, see github.com/ateliertriay/bricolage
Designed by Mathieu Triay
https://www.mathieutriay.com/
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bricolage+Grotesque

15.- Instrument Serif

Instrument Serif is a condensed display font designed for the Instrument brand. It is intended for use at large sizes and offers a contemporary take on some of the time-tested characteristics found in old-style serifs.
Instrument: https://www.instrument.com/
To contribute, please see github.com/Instrument/instrument-serif.
Designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida & Jordan Egstad
Web Rodrigo: https://www.behance.net/erreefe
Web Jordan: https://egstad.com/
Download the font:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Instrument+Serif

The Quote
The phrase I used for displaying the specimen is a quote from a German poem.

"Lenore", sometimes translated as "Leonora", "Leonore" or "Ellenore", is a poem written by German author Gottfried August Bürger in 1773, and published in 1774 in the Göttinger Musenalmanach. "Lenore" is generally characterised as being part of the 18th-century Gothic ballads, and although the character that returns from its grave in the poem is not considered to be a vampire, the poem has been very influential on vampire literature.
(Wikipedia)

But then, published in 1897 by Bram Stoker, appears in Dracula

“That is why, I suppose, you wished him to go on to Bukovina. You cannot deceive me, my friend; I know too much, and my horses are swift.” As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s “Lenore”:—
“Denn die Todten reiten schnell”—
(“For the dead travel fast.”)
The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a gleaming smile. The passenger turned his face away, at the same time putting out his two fingers and crossing himself.
Bram Stoker's Dracula at Gutenberg

In the Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, the gipsy woman says to Johnathan Harker in Romanian:

“Pentru că morţii umblă repede.”

“For the dead travel fast.”

https://youtu.be/fU3t_9TdbE8?si=wvu30mIyGFxIx7Dp&t=142

That’s my selection. I hope you’ll like them.

Mid-century modern Illustration

2024-02-05T14:09:00.018-03:00

Bauhaus & Art Deco & more

have been since I was a child fascinated with this minimal style in illustration, because I watched Mr. Magoo and other cartoons made at that time (50s, 60s, UPA mostly) and japanese anime. So I invite you to a short trip to Mid Century Modern Illustration (and design).

MCM Definition:

Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was popular in the United States and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1969, during the United States's post–World War II period. [...]

The mid-century modern movement in the U.S. was an American reflection of the International and Bauhaus movements, including the works of Gropius, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.(Wikipedia).

MCM Sources:

According to Creativebloq, the direct sources of the MCM are:

“ The striking geometric modes of Russian Constructivists like El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko

Bauhaus school graphic designers, such as László Moholy-Nagy and typographer Herbert Bayer

The advertising poster works by Kurt Schwitters, an artist more commonly associated with the Dada movement.”

Design Trend: Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design and Beyond by

Marc Schenker adds another source:

https://creativemarket.com/blog/mid-century-modern-graphic-design

“We can’t look to this style without understanding what big design trend immediately came before it. In this case, it was Art Deco, that machine-influenced, geometric style that was at once simple and excessive.”

I chose the Art Deco style to redesign my own website. So I created illustrations based in monochrome red or pink on a yellow background, with birds, men and a typeface based on this style (STF Yunque).

Check this super entertaining video by Pete Beard about Art Deco illustration featuring: Julius Klinger, Lucian Bernhard, Ludwig Hohlwein, George Barbier, Erté (Romain de Tirtoff),

John Held, José Carlos, Fortunato Depero, René Magritte, Einar Nerman, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Joyce Mercer, Dorothy Lathrop, Vladimir Lebedev, Frank Newbould, Tom Purvis, Leo Marfurt, Roger Broders, A. M. Cassandre.

https://youtu.be/hYOXbzJvesI?si=mVm1YXPt7WaCqHm7

MCM Design

For some context, I am displaying designers and illustrators from the Mid Century American Illustration.

MCM Designers List:

On the book “The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design” by Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio they lists MCM designers divided in Homegrown versus Émigrés ( https://themodernsbook.com/ ):

Émigrés (18)

Josef Albers, Walter Allner, Herbert Bayer, Alexey Brodovitch, Will Burtin, George Giusti, György Kepes, Leo Lionni, Herbert Matter, Erik Nitsche, M. Peter Piening, Cipe Pineles, Ladislav Sutnar, Fred Troller, George Tscherny, Massimo Vignelli, Dietmar R. Winkler, Rudi Wolff

Homegrown (45)

Saul Bass, Lillian Bassman, Lester Beall, Peter Bradford, Robert Brownjohn, Jacqueline S. Casey, Chermayeff & Geismar, John and Mary Condon, Donald and Ann Crews, Richard Danne, Louis Danziger, Rudolph de Harak, Louis Dorfsman, Ray Eames, Gene Federico, S. Neil Fujita, William Golden, Morton Goldsholl, Charles Goslin, Irving Harper, E. McKnight Kauffer, Ray Komai, Burton Kramer, Roy Kuhlman, Matthew Leibowitz, George Lois, Herb Lubalin, Alvin Lustig, Elaine Lustig Cohen, John Massey, Tomoko Miho, Reid Miles, Charles E. Murphy, Georg Olden, Tony Palladino, Paul Rand, Alexander Ross, Arnold Saks, Arnold Shaw, Louis Silverstein, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Alex Steinweiss, Deborah Sussman, Bradbury Thompson, Lance Wyman

Example: Saul Bass’s Title Sequences

https://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/saul-bass/titles/

Early-Mid 20th Century American Illustrators

A list of illustrators intersecting the period: Early-Mid 20th Century American Illustrators at Art Cyclopedia. There were different styles in illustration in those years, so keep in mind that this is a list of illustrators working in that period, rather than technically MCM style illustrators.

https://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/American-artists-20th.html

Douglas Allen [American Illustrator, born in 1935]

Frank Kelly Freas [American Illustrator, 1922-2005]

Frank McCarthy [American Painter and Illustrator, 1924-2002]

Harrison Fisher [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1877-1934]

James Montgomery Flagg [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1877-1960]

Frank E. Schoonover [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1877-1972]

William Henry Dethlef Koerner [American Painter and Illustrator, 1878-1938]

C. Coles Phillips [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1880-1927]

Joseph Clement Coll [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1881-1921]

Willy Pogány [Hungarian-born American Illustrator, 1882-1955]

N.C. Wyeth [American Golden Age Illustrator, 1882-1945]

Rube Goldberg [American Illustrator and Inventor, 1883-1970]

Frank R. Paul [Austrian-born American Illustrator, 1884-1963]

Kay Nielsen [Danish-born American Golden Age Illustrator, 1886-1957]

James Chapin [American Painter and Illustrator, 1887-1975]

Chesley Bonestell [American Painter and Illustrator, 1888-1986]

Kerr Eby [American Illustrator, 1889-1946]

Norman Rockwell [American Illustrator, 1894-1978]

Alberto Vargas [Peruvian-born American Illustrator, 1896-1982]

Boris Artzybasheff [Ukrainian-born American Painter and Illustrator, 1899-1965]

Fritz Eichenberg [German-born American Illustrator, 1901-1990]

Martha Sawyers [American Illustrator, 1902-1988]

Al Hirschfeld [American Illustrator, 1903-2003]

Terence Duren [American Illustrator, 1904-1968]

Dr. Seuss [American Writer and Illustrator, 1904-1991]

Lee Brown Coye [American Illustrator, 1907-1981]

Stevan Dohanos [American Illustrator, 1907-1994]

John Phillip Falter [American Illustrator, 1910-1982]

Arthur Sarnoff [American Illustrator, 1912-2000]

Arthur Getz [American Illustrator, 1913-1996]

Hannes Bok [American Illustrator, 1914-1964]

Gil Elvgren [American Illustrator, 1914-1980]

Virgil Finlay [American Illustrator, 1914-1971]

Saul Steinberg [Romanian-born American Illustrator, 1914-1999]

Will Eisner [American Writer and Illustrator, 1917-2005]

Jack Kirby [American Illustrator, 1917-1994]

Robert T. McCall [American Painter and Illustrator, born in 1919]

Douglas Allen [American Illustrator, born in 1935]

MCM and Music

Jazz Influence:

When I was a kid and watched cartoons, the MCM styles were always accompanied by jazz music. As it tell us the paper Tom Perchard’s Mid-century Modern Jazz: Music and Design in the Postwar Home

https://www.academia.edu/30347818/Mid_Century_Modern_Jazz_Music_and_Design_in_the_Postwar_Home

“The music’s sonic characteristics were frequently called upon to complement the newly sleek visual and tactile experiences of furniture, fabrics, plastics, the light and space of modern domestic architecture then coming to define the aspirational bourgeois home; an international modern visual aesthetic was reflected back in jazz album cover art.”

“Yet turn the page of this magazine and the diagrams of a new (and ratherwhite) America cede to a reminiscence of old Europe, and one made by way of a provocatively debonair blackness; this was the cultural amalgam that gave mid-century modernism its soundtrack.” (jazz).

“Yet at the same time they articulate a thoroughly contemporary modern visual patterning that was centred on the organic and biomorphic. Especially popu-lar in American graphic design – these forms appear in the work of designers like Paul Rand and Alvin Lustig, and also on the mid-decade jazz album cover work of Paul Bacon and Reid Miles – organic designs spread across materials in the early-to-mid 1950s…”

Characteristics of the MCM:

From the article, Design Trend: Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design and Beyond by Marc Schenker on the Creative Market website, a list of characteristics:

https://creativemarket.com/blog/mid-century-modern-graphic-design

“ Minimalism

A rejection of ornamentation for the sake of ornamentation

Conservative

Classic

Clean lines and angles

Fluid movement

Usability (“form follows function”)

Experimentation with materials (the use of traditional, non-traditional, and even contrasting materials)

Geometric influences (curves, angles)

Multi-purpose use

Colors: neutral, bold and vibrant”

MCM Color Palettes

MCM Color Palettes (at Youworkforthem)

https://www.youworkforthem.com/blog/2020/07/01/exploring-the-elements-of-midcentury-graphic-design/

Color Palettes: “... the 1950s embraced a lot of vibrant palettes while the 1960s gravitated to more earth-toned hues…”...”If you’re looking to evoke the 50s, you might try pairing combinations of lemon yellow, sky blue, fuchsia, mint green, or poppy red. For more 60s-inspired designs, you’ll probably lean toward more earthen combinations like muted red and sunset orange, jade or olive green, tans and browns, rich mustard yellow, and yes… even the “dreaded” avocado.”

MCM Color Palettes (Creativebloq)

https://www.creativebloq.com/features/mid-century-modern-graphic-design-a-designers-guide

“Colour palettes from the era aren’t uniform. They vary from in-your-face, nursery schoolish primary and secondary tones (reflecting the fine art around the era, such as the work of Piet Mondrian); to more earthy combinations of olive, paprika, and gold; to more chintzy patterning of mint green, fuchsia and turquoise.”

MCM Typography

Typefaces: Anzeigen-Grotesk / Neue Aurora IX - Alternate Gothic

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/33008/a-millionth-anniversary-mailing-card-for-meri

MCM Typography (at You work for Them)

https://www.youworkforthem.com/blog/2020/07/01/exploring-the-elements-of-midcentury-graphic-design/

Typography: “Bauhaus and Swiss Style are two hallmarks of midcentury type. Utilitarian sans serifs reigned in the mid-1900s, bringing classic type designs like Futura, Helvetica, Univers, Frutiger, and Akzidenz Grotesk…” …Garamond, Century Expanded and Clarendon certainly had their roles to play…”

MCM Typography (at Font In Use)

https://fontsinuse.com/tags/189/mid-century-modern

Some of the typefaces mentioned are:

Antique Olive Nord, Cactus, Studio Feixen Sans, Futura, Monotype Baskerville, ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Basic Commercial, Interstate, Bodoni, Clarendon, Akzidenz-Grotesk et altro.

Check the website for specimens and more typefaces.

MCM Illustration Style (at You work for Them)

https://www.youworkforthem.com/blog/2020/07/01/exploring-the-elements-of-midcentury-graphic-design/

Illustration Style: “... they favored simple lines and brush strokes with a typically limited color palette. Advertisements in particular often captured the idyllic American life with a side of humor, featuring happy people using happy products to enrich their happy lives. This level of optimism and joy was likely an after-effect of post-war America. The economy was booming and people just wanted to move past those dark days and live their lives, looking toward a comfortable and stable future. And they did. Even now, when we watch syndicated reruns of old television shows like Donna Reed or Leave It To Beaver, we’re struck by how simple and wonderful life was… at least on the screen.”

MCM Cartoons:

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/what-is-your-favorite-mid-century-modern-designed-cartoon-short-or-series/

1) Rooty Toot Toot (1951)

Black comedy musical animated short film, directed by John Hubley. It was released by Columbia Pictures and produced by UPA. In 1994 it was voted #41 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

https://youtu.be/ejLWX1Dwn00?si=-3dK14RpEWDSszRa

2) Rocky And His Friends (or the retitled “The Bullwinkle Show”from 1959:

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks.

https://youtu.be/LYNVCm48w6g?si=H5YfOomYtEZxSpdZ

3) Destination Earth (1956)

Destination Earth is a 1956 promotional cartoon created by John Sutherland and funded by the American Petroleum Institute. The short explains the fundamentals of the petroleum industry and how petroleum products enrich everyday life in the United States, as well as the benefits of a free market economy. Designed by Tom Oreb for John Sutherland Productions.

https://youtu.be/E2qpjLyr-FY?si=yoWxbSHYS7zki2W0

4) FLEBUS - Terrytoon filmed in CinemaScope, 1957

Filmed at Terrytoons, directed by Ernest Pintoff. Gene Deitch was the supervising director.

https://vimeo.com/485068762

5) "Mars and Beyond"

"Mars and Beyond" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on December 4, 1957. It was directed by Ward Kimball and narrated by Paul Frees. This episode discusses the possibility of life on other planets, especially Mars.

https://youtu.be/dk7lf2D848I?si=Q9Egqjmll8efIteK

6) "The Ragtime Bear" (1949)

J. Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus. Mr. Magoo's first appearance was in the theatrical short cartoon "The Ragtime Bear" (1949), scripted by Millard Kaufman. His creation was a collaborative effort; animation director John Hubley is said to have partly based the character on his uncle Harry Woodruff, and W. C. Fields was another source of inspiration.(Wikipedia)

https://youtu.be/0y33r9bilw8?si=36HtfeOn0XoVazli

Please, check the article for more references.

On the blog Animation Obsessive you can download a free copy of Cartoon Modern — a rare, out-of-print artbook on mid-century animation.

“Released in 2006, Cartoon Modern is the guide to the so-called “UPA style.” It’s full of art and production insights you can’t find anywhere else. The whole mid-century cartoon movement is here, from UPA to Mary Blair to Sleeping Beauty and beyond.”

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you

Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (2006)

https://archive.org/details/cartoon-modern-uncompressed/mode/2up

Illustrators in the 50s and 60s on video (Pete Beard channel):

Illustrators in 1950s USA and their impact on the twenty first century

https://youtu.be/iP1Xr1hQ1uY?si=zxtsbWRbRWGtEcM2

Citing: Jim Flora (jazz covers), Cliff Roberts (monochrome illustrations), Alice & Martin Provensen (children books), Mary Blair (concept art films, advertising), Eyvind Earle (background art), Abner Graboff (children books).

Illustrators in 1950s Britain

https://youtu.be/F6gQBNcv78c?si=6q77mnwR8CZRX2Z3

Citing: Bill Morden and John Critchlow (Bull Magazine), Archie Dickens & MB Tompkins (pinup artists), Charles Tunnicliffe (Wild life illustrator), Francis Marshall (advertising - gestual), Tom Eckersley (posters) inspired by A.M. Cassandre (Art Deco - typography), Abram Games (poster design), Hans Unger (poster design), Ronald Searle (cartoonist), Rowland Emett (cartoonist and kinetic sculptor), Karl Giles(cartoonist Daily Express), Norman Thelwell (cartoonist), Robert Stewart Sherriffs (Caricaturist and cartoonist), Edward Heinz (caricaturist), Frank Hampson (comics), Ken Reid and Leo Baxendale (cartoonist), Donnell McGill (postcards), Arnold Taylor (cartoonist), Sydney Jordan (cartoonist), Arthur Ferrier (cartoons), Andy Capp (cartoonist, The Mirror), Harmsen van der Beek (children books), Peggy Fortnum (children book, Paddington bear), Edward Ardizzone (children books), Eric Fraser (monochrome, engraving like), Edward Bawden (pposters), Barbara Jones (children books),

Please check Pete Beard channel for more references on illustration about every historic period!

Children books & MCM:

On the article, at Milly Burroughs’s Aiga on Design https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-did-so-many-mid-century-designers-make-childrens-books/

“Here [on children books], they were free to explore many of the themes already prominent in the mid-century graphic design world. These included Modernist ideals for living — largely shaped by the Bauhaus school of thinking, and prominent in architecture and design for the home. Nature, bold colors, smooth-lined curving shapes, and the kind of nuclear familial bliss touted throughout the western world as aspirational all defined the aesthetics of an era of peace-time domesticity.”

MCM on Advertising:

“Advertising was, arguably, the definitive place that mid-century modern cartoons took hold. UPA, Storyboard, Playhouse and other studios all worked in TV commercials, spreading their design ideas far and wide.”

(Animation Obssesive, https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you

Also check the blog:

https://theadvertisingarchives.blogspot.com/

More inspiration and illustration:

The website Grain Edit, with no posts since January 2019.

http://grainedit.com/2008/09/29/grain-edit-the-year-in-review/

Tumblr blog about mid-century modern illustration:

https://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/

Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design on @mcm_graphics

Tweets from Theo Inglis @theo_inglis

Why is MCM still trending?

But, why do we still find this style trending and being in use?

On the article Rachele Dini’s “Things of Beauty: The Politics of Postmillennial Nostalgia for Mid-century Design”:

https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/06/21/things-of-beauty-the-politics-of-postmillennial-nostalgia-for-mid-century-design/comment-page-1/

“For Freud, the “compulsion to repeat” signified an effort to revisit a traumatic event. It’s not difficult to deduce what traumas we are re-enacting in our endless rebooting of the period 1940-1975—or in our endless rebooting of reboots…”

“A second, related fantasy to which the mid-century drama plays is the lure of the myth of historical progress as a seamless process defined by changing fashions, interior designs, and colour palettes, rather than by conflict, violence, trauma, and death.”

“In 1982, in a talk that would become Postmodernism: The Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Fredric Jameson diagnosed this “nostalgia mode” as indicating that “for Americans at least the fifties remain the privileged lost object of desire.”

“One of the things I wonder about is the press’s tendency to reduce the popularity of period dramas and mid-century-inspired packaging to a story about people looking for comfort in times of socioeconomic upheaval (9/11; the 2008-2010 global financial crisis; the 2020-2021 lockdown), rather than a tactic straight out of a marketing strategist’s playbook.”

And last, but not least, the

Modern Illustration Archive:

An archive of illustration from c.1950-1975, shining a spotlight on pioneering illustrators and their work.

Modern Illustration is a project by illustrator Zara Picken.

https://www.modernillustration.org/

Finally,

MCM Illustrators and Illustrations examples:

Elizabeth Browzowska from "The Boy Who Wouldn't Eat His Breakfast", Wonder Books, 1963.

https://melaniebiehle.com/2011/12/20111215the-boy-who-wouldnt-eat-his-breakfast-by-elizabeth-brozowska-html/

The Animal Fair Written & Illustrated by Alice Provensen & Martin Provensen

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/25/the-animal-fair-provensen/

Bernice Myers’s Children Books

https://fishinkblog.com/2012/12/21/bernice-myers-talented-mid-century-illustrator-of-childrens-books/

The Indoor Noisy Book – January 1, 1994 by Margaret Wise Brown (Author), Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator)

https://leonardweisgard.com/

Dahlov Ipcar, 1961- The Little Fisherman

https://societyillustrators.org/award-winners/dahlovipcar/

1958 Abelard Folk Song Book, by Norman Cazden, pictures by Abner Graboff. Abelard-Schuman.

https://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-life-of-abner-graboff.html

Illustrations by Einar Nerman for his Kom Ska Vi Leka (Sweden, 1950)

https://illustratorslounge.com/cartoon/einar-nerman-1888-1983/

Twinkle Loon illustrated story by Robert E. Berry

https://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2014/03/twinkle-loon.html

French illustrator and author Alain Grée

https://alaingree.com/freebies/

The Witch next door Norman Bridwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bridwell

General Foods Kitchens | All About Home Baking 1963

illustrations by Mary Ronin

http://stickersandstuff.blogspot.com/

Mary Blair

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/mary-blair/

"The Joke Book" compiled by Oscar Weigle, illustrated by Bill & Bonnie Rutherford (1963)

http://www.myretroreads.com/2020/02/the-joke-book-compiled-by-oscar-weigle.html

"The Romper Room Do Bee Book of Manners" by Nancy Claster, illustrated by Art Seiden (1960)

http://modernkiddo.com/vintage-book-shelf-romper-room-book-of-manners/

https://www.carlemuseum.org/explore-art/story-board/keeping-ed-emberley

The Witch Of Hissing Hill illustrated by Janet McCaffery, 1964

http://www.myvintageavenue.com/2012/10/the-witch-of-hissing-hill-illustrated.html

Karel en mienet written by Mariejte Witteveen and illustrated by Eddy Dukkers, circa 1950.

https://geheugen.delpher.nl/nl/geheugen/view?coll=ngvn&identifier=PRB01%3A036866792&pres%5Bimageindex%5D=6

Ryohei Yanagihara (1931–2015)

https://illustratorslounge.com/animation/ryohei-yanagihara-1931-2015/

The happy little handsaw, illustrated by Milli Eaton in 1955

https://10engines.blogspot.com/2010/04/bookshelf-happy-little-handsaw.html

Le Manege Vivant (c. 1950), which is the French edition of The Marvelous Merry-Go-Round, written by Jane Werner and illustrated by J.P. Miller.

http://grainedit.com/2011/07/08/book-gems-from-the-south-of-france/

I hope you get inspired!

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