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Green Monsters

Movie posters from 1961 (top) and 1965 (bottom).

Via Martin Klasch.

Happy

A classic ad from the agency Lowe Bull in Cape Town, South Africa. Still makes me smile after all these years.
    Happy Father's Day weekend to fathers everywhere.

Via Trend Insights.

Mary's Meadow Gold

 

Meadow Gold Dairy recently announced the closing of their 101-year-old plant located just two blocks from where I am sitting right now. It's a sad end to a local success story. The dairy operation that would eventually become Meadow Gold got its start a few miles south of here, in Beatrice, Nebraska, in 1894. While still known as Beatrice Foods, the company forged a unique partnership with a freelance artist fresh out of the Disney studios.
    Mary Blair had worked as an artist on Disney masterpieces such as Song of the South, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. In 1953, she left to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator and graphic artist. The artwork above, for calendars and packaging, was created in the mid 1950s. I remember the character being used into the 1980s.
    Mary would go back and work with Walt Disney, most notably bringing her unique style to the It's a Small World attraction for the 1964 World's Fair (later moved to Disneyland and replicated in other parks). You can also see her work in many Golden Books, still in print today.

Images via grickily.

Tehran Street Art

Recently seen in the streets of Tehran. Read more about these images here.

Via FryingPanFire.

Subdivisions

New York artist Ross Racine creates aerial views of fictional suburbs, examining the relation between design and actual lived experience. No photographs or scanned images are used in the pieces above. Each was drawn freehand directly on the computer and then printed on an inkjet printer.

Via The New Shelton Wet/Dry.

Reach

Clever? Or too subtle? You tell me.

Via Ads of the World.

Stripped Bare

A piece entitled Zé Carioca No. 4 by Rivane Neuenschwander, currently on display at the new york Museum of Modern Art.

Via The Ephemerist.

The Hergé Museum

The idea of a museum dedicated to the art of Hergé (Georges Remi) had been in the works for more than thirty years. This month, the Hergé Museum officially opens in Louvain-la-Neuve, just outside of Brussels. Hergé's timeless comic character Tintin made his first newspaper appearance more than seventy years ago, in January of 1929.
    The museum was designed by Christian de Portzamparc. I'm particularly taken by the entrance. More photos and project details here.

Via Contemporist.

Watchpapers

Originally designed as a protective insert for pocket watch cases (to keep the back of the watch from getting scratched inside of the case), watchpapers eventually became an advertising medium for watchmakers in the mid to late 1800s. Most of the examples above come from this period. Many more examples here.

Via BibliOdyssey.

Wind-Borne Virus

A light installation on the steps of the Madrid Stock Exchange. Created by Luzinterruptus, The Wind Brought Us the Crisis uses the financial pages from influential newspapers, radiating out from one of the sources of the financial crisis.

Via Art MoCo.