Vintage Bus Tickets from 1930-1979

We found some vintage typographic gold on the internet lately in the form of these colorful old Milwaukee bus passes from 80 years ago.  Check out the entire set on kindra_is_here's Flickr as well as other vintage designs on her blog.

Vintage Public Health Service Posters (1940-1975)

The National Library of Medicine has a very nice collection of U.S. Public Health Service Posters on their website, in an exhibit called the Iconography of a Contagion.  There's a bunch of cool posters from the 20th Century, definitely fun to click through.

Poster credits go to Leonard Karsakov who designed this photomechanical print for the United States Public Health Service in 1945.

Thanks to StanleyMoons for the tip.

Detroit Punk Flyers from 1985-1988

A collection of zeroxed-style punk rock flyers from the eighties, found in this Flickr set by DetroitDerek.

Rafael Tufiño - A classic Puetro Rican poster artist from New York

Rafael Tufiño, the "Painter of the People," is a famous Puerto Rican painter who was born in Brooklyn, but is also famous for his amazing poster prints.  If any of this is reminscent of old WPA posters, it's because Rafael Tufiño designed his most popular posters during the 1950's for government-sponsored literacy and hygiene campaigns.  Check out PuertoRicanPosters.com for more of his work and other designers from the country.

Gaieties of 1936

I'm sure that most of you havent seen a flyer this old before.  An old handbill from the 1930's for a play in Los Angeles, right in the Greek Theatre.  It's pretty bold and attention-demanding -- seeing how the masters of the day brought in people by making their messages loud and announced, while working with very simple drawing and printing processes.
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World's Fair Posters

 

These poster designs are just as stunning as they are ancient -- and they wure are able to graphically convey, very powerfully, the notions of progress, power, and innovation that the World Fair stood for.

Claude Alexander @ Pantages

OLD old school poster printed in 1913 for a magic show of sorts in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  If it's still eye-catching and mesmerizing now, how was it for the cell-phone less, lap-top-less and laser-less old folk back in the early 1900's?
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Hatch Show Print - American Artifact

An amazing letterpress poster by Hatch Show Print, an infamous shop that has been cranking out carved wooden type on paper since the 1950's in Nashville.  You can check out just how old-school their printmaking process is on their clip on the American Artifact website.  If you can, check out the trailer and see if they're screening in your area, because its a pretty cool documentary on the traditional and non-digital craft of making flyers and posters.

Jon Van Hamersveld

 

 

 

 

Some uber retro and hyper-psychadelic posters and flyers designed by the infamous Jon Van Hamersveld.  This is another must-know designer who really set the scene for this unique acid-trip color-blast style.

Peter Saville - The Factory

One of the most famous flyers, made for the first parties at The Factory by graphic designer Peter Saville.

The Napoleons Invasion

By classic Russian Designer Khodasevich V. M., printed in 1931.

Shlepjanov

Russian designer from the 1920's.

Rush Tour Poster

Jorg Hamburger