Vintage Poster and Print Blog

Vintage fashion, vol. 1: Instagram inspirations

Vintage fashion invariably charms us on films, images, posters or photographs of (or inspired by) old times. The sophisticated tailoring, intricate details and hand-crafted textiles are qualities appreciated and eagerly emulated today. We also constantly remain under their impression. In first part of our posts about vintage fashion we show a couple of our favourite Instagram profiles, which are great sources of inspirations and treasuries full of vintage clothing.

1. Vera Vague Vintage (@veravaguevintage)

The shop with impressive collection of vintage clothes - from XIXth century dresses, to costumes from 50's and 60's. Among many interesting things - some unique victorian and eduardian garments with delicate laces:

2. TROVE VINTAGE BOUTIQUE (@trovevintageboutique)

In this shop you'll also find a lot of lovely vintage garments, including such a beautiful things:

3. Pia Storm, Vintage Fashionista (@piastorm)

This vintage blogger from Copenhagen shows that "vintage" may be not only a fashion, but also a lifestyle. On her Insta feed you'll find i.a. a lot of inspiring outfits, subtle vintage pastels and delicate jewelry:

4. ADORED VINTAGE (@adorevintage)

The place where you can find not only clothes, bags or jewelry, but also house & decor accesories plus bright, eye-catching photos of inspiring interior details.

If you have your own favourite Instagram profiles, which show vintage fashion pearls - share with us in comment!

Posted: Jan 20, 2016 | Tagged: fashion, instagram, photos, retro, textilles, vintage

Inspired by vintage... Clips & animations

As we mentioned couple of times, we like to follow vintage things as well as to watch contemporary projects inspired by vintage mood, style and aesthetics: fashion, design, art, movies and animation. Here we have three examples from the last field: movie shorts inspired by...

1. Vintage books: this motion picture by Henning M. Lederer is a very nice set of 55 vintage book covers, with animated geometrical elements:

2. Vintage fashion: short video by Sabine Bein is a kind of animated journey across parts of vintage fashion history and profiles of the most popular fashion brands:

3. Vintage photos: in music video for "Zerbait Asmatugo Dugu" by Berri Txarrak (Direction & Animation: Joseba Elorza) motion vintage collages are connected with harder guitar sounds, which gives additional contrast:

Effects of connecting old and new things can be classy and nostalgic or funny and suprising - and that's the point! For more contemporary projects inspired by vintage things - check also our previous post When past meets future - modern projects based on vintage elements.

Posted: Dec 01, 2015 | Tagged: animation, music, photos, retro, video, vintage

Questions about the Future of Print

In the time when we have more and more technologic resolutions and digitalized versions of publications, we often ask ourlseves questions: What will happen with printing? Will there be a place for prints in future? And finally: Should we really treat digital and paper versions as opponents or rather think about them as resolutions, which can happily and effectively work next to each other?

In fact, those considerations are not only about the printing itself. They are also reflections about media durabilities (is digital medium always more durable than paper version - and what actually "durability" really means here) or about professions, roles and specializations of people, which participate in process of creation and distribution.

The Future of Print - documentary film by Epilogue, is an attempt to find answers to these and other questions related to printing, selling and saving paper publications. Even if the most part of this project shows books as main "heroes", it's definitely not only about them - it helps to think about this subject in wider way.

During watching the video you'll have an opportunity to meet printers, book sellers or people specialized in other areas related to printable projects, who share their stories and observations, worries and hopes. Thanks to them The Future of Print becomes a warm and a bit nostalgic journey through the world filled with the smell of print and with rustling of paper pages but, at the sime time, it's a crisp and honest report of what's happening now with prints and a forecast of what can happen next.

See the video below:

EPILOGUE: The Future of Print from EPILOGUEdoc on Vimeo.

Posted: Nov 23, 2015 | Tagged: print, printing process, video

Making of a poster: virtual printing simulator by MoMA

Today we would like to remind you some good tool, which is a must in our "Making of a poster" series. If you don't know it yet, and you want to know more about printing methods, there's a great opportunity to see the virtual printing workshop and to expand your knowledge in nice and interesting way. Museum of Modern Art prepared special interactive project, which demonstrates main printmaking processes: woodcut, etching, lithography and screenprint. Each step is described and shown through an animated image.

Additionally, it includes pictures of more than fourty prints from the Museum's collection so you can also see the effects of use of each technique.

Check and try this project here.

Posted: Nov 09, 2015 | Tagged: lithography, making of a poster, poster, print, printing process

Making of a poster: Lithography

It's been a while since we started our journey across poster creation and printing methods - after letterpress printing and poster stories it's time for another printing technique, lithography, which was often used by poster makers from the past. The name comes from Ancient Greek; Lithos means "stone" and graphein - "to write". The print is, in fact, placed on a stone with a smooth surface, which is a basis for this type of print. It was invented in early XIXth century and for that time it was a main method of commercial color printing until it was replaced by offset lithography - says Kate Desforges, visual artist and printmaker working on a stone lithography print at the Leicester Print Workshop. - It’s a very intuitive process. (…) I think that the intuitive part of it challenges me and I like that. (...) In any other printmaking technique is a certain physical boundary between the image and the artist's mind and the reproduction of this image on the matrix in front of them. In lithography there is no intermedium, there is brain, hand, stone.

You can listen to this story and see the whole process here: