ESPRIT GRAPHICS SF

Yesterdays ESPRIT come back to me. Kids shoe box, 1986 – where shoes shine, promotional cards – knockout colors, Esprit Sport Fall ’84 – lively girl in shades, ‘Don’t Panic’ by Gary Basemen – chill zone of 1992, Esprit Wholesale Catalog ’82 – babes & bods. Designed in San Francisco. via AIGA Design Archives (Thanks [...]

LA LA RAZA

Silkscreen prints from La Raza community center, San Diego. via OAC  

MASK MAKING

Pinky bunny meets Mexican wrestler meets Fang. So good! Halloween, or Day of the Dead ideas for mask making. California Arts Council Workshop, Self-Help Graphic Arts program in L.A., 1982. via OAC  

FREE CHURCH ?

Do you know the Free Church? Praise to these pink pamphlets passed out by the elusive Free Church in Berkeley, CA in 1970. I need to make a trifold typed letter sized mailer for my message. Stamp and all. via Calisphere

RANCHER WEAR

Get the look: worn out rancher. Worn in, dirty, and beat up. This is real tuff stuff tomboy style. Inspired by this story of a wrangler babe and her horse who saved a boy from a grizzly bear. via LOC: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982  

APRON & CAPES

Hawaii, Polynesian. Background as blue as the sea. via Smithsonian NMNH  

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