Studio visit: Jurri Arrak
Lithuanian Children’s Books
Surreal 1970’s Hungarian Book Covers
1960’s psychedelic illustration
East German 1970’s geometry book
Lviv Book Market: Soviet children’s books
1950’s Swedish songbook
Lviv Book Market, Ukraine – Soviet Book Covers
Soviet graphic design
Soviet building postcards
Latvian puppet postcards
East German cat brooches
Soviet pin badges / Tallinn Russian market
1930’s Portugese illustration
1920’s German silent film making book
Schminke Modernist House, Germany
1940’s Jumping Gnome illustration
Soviet Christmas postcards
1960’s Latvian illustration
1950’s interior design article
1915 Czech pig riding postcard
Estonian Abstract Art
1960’s psychedelic poetry books
Romanian puppet postcard
Early 20th century surreal postcards
1970’s czech greetings card
1960’s Japanese plastic dog brooch
Lviv Book Market, Ukraine – More Soviet book covers
Soviet illustration postcards
1960’s psychedelic bib
Category Archives: TRAVEL
Hungarian Book Covers
Just got back from adventuring in Transylvania and Hungary. Found all of these titles by chance in a backstreet bookshop in Budapest. Some fairly unhinged imagery similar to the covers I featured last year from Lviv in the Ukraine. My … Continue reading
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Brest Fortress, Belarus
Currently more than a little enamoured with the sensational Soviet War memorial at Brest Fortress, Belarus built to commemorate the 1941 battle on the site. Epic proportions of stern stone – makes me also think of the gutsy Treptower Park … Continue reading
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Schminke House, Germany
This beautiful creature is the Schminke House, in Loebau, nestled in the corner of Saxony near the Polish border. It was created in 1933 by seminal German architect Hans Scharoun also responsible for iconic structures like the Philharmonie concert hall … Continue reading
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Katowice, Poland
Just got back from a (bumpy) roadtrip from Berlin to Katowice in Poland to attend the OFF festival. Was inspired by this stylish gemoetric lady en route at a Polski service station… The OFF festival was a really nicely curated … Continue reading
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Russian illustration postcards
Two super Russian postcards picked up in Lviv, Ukraine. Dating from the late 1960’s and with imagery that somehow seems intrinsically linked to those sorts of places (wolves, snow, men casually chatting with bears in dressing gowns, etc.) they conjure … Continue reading
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Russian children’s postcards
Some Russian postcards that look like animation stills picked up in Lviv, Ukraine and looking to date from the late 60’s from the text and postmarks on the back. Re. the boy on the first card – I wonder if … Continue reading
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Ukranian book market – Russian covers
Just got back from an exhilarating trip to Lviv in the Ukraine – we got there via Eastern Poland which meant numerous seatbeltless taxis, ramshackle mini vans and skipping over the border with gold toothed grandmas smuggling cigarettes (exactly the … Continue reading
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