» The West http://nothing-is-new.com Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:43:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ESPRIT GRAPHICS SF http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/01/12/esprit-graphics-sf/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/01/12/esprit-graphics-sf/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:14:36 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8337

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 be to MC)

 

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

 

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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

 

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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

]]> http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/09/30/free-church/feed/ 1 RANCHER WEAR http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/09/22/rancher-wear/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/09/22/rancher-wear/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:06:18 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=7823

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

 

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

 

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