Cool vintage fonts for your next project
Check out these free retro and vintage fonts listed at Vandelay Design. This list includes scripts, handwritten, icons, grungy, and Art Deco styles of all kinds.
Free Retro and Vintage Fonts
It is Easy Being Green
Fashion by Givenchy for L’officiel magazine, 1967.
Source: The Swinging Sixties (Tumblr)
Iron Man 3 in Retro Pulp Paperback
I found this wonderful paperback book cover via Rockjaw on Tumblr. The artist, Paolo Rivera, was commissioned to create a limited edition poster for the cast and crew of Iron Man 3.
Nice work, Paolo!
August 2009 Desktop Calendar
For my darling readers, an August 2009 desktop calendar to decorate your lovely computer! Enjoy!
Happy 4th of July!
Touch of Retro wishes you a happy 4th of July!
Jayne Mansfield (1954)
Update 5/1/2013: The original image from Flicker disappeared, so I found a replacement from My Vintage Vogue’s Tumblr.
Dry your Clothes & your Hair at the Same Time!
This nifty dryer has a Modern Hair Dryer Attachment that will allow you to dry your clothes and your hair at the same time! This is modern convenience at its best!
From the Montgomery Ward 1961 Fall/Winter Catalog
Recently Discovered Photos of Marilyn Monroe
In August 1950, Marilyn Monroe was just a model and recently had a bit part in the movie “The Asphalt Jungle.” Ed Clark took these photos of the 24-year-old Marilyn in Griffith Park.
“She was unknown then, so I was able to spend a lot of time shooting her,” Clark said. “We’d go out to Griffith Park and she’d read poetry. I sent several rolls to Life in New York, but they wired back, ‘Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?’ ” (read more at CNN)
Life magazine didn’t use the photos and stored them away. Forgotten over time, they only recently surfaced when Dawnie Walton, deputy editor at Life.com, found them when combing through Life.com digital archive. Two years ago, Life started converting their substantial photographic collection into a digital archive.
Imagine what they will find next, darlings!
Photos of Marilyn Monroe at Life.com
(photo: Ed Clark/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Perfect Form, Gil Elvgren (1968)
From the master of pin-up art, Gil Elvgren. That horse is wise to stay far away!
Update 5/1/2013: The original image from Flicker disappeared, so I found a replacement from Gil Elvgren’s Pinups on Tumblr.