Details are important to me. Things that have interesting shapes and colors are pleasing to the eye and often provoke thought or allow the imagination to run wild.
Here are some details from the 1950s exhibit last week.
Look at those colors! The shapes! The Atomic style is just a lot of fun!
Given how much advertising I see on a daily basis, it’s surprising this increase isn’t more substantial. Although this was from eight years ago so it certainly is drastically more today.
From the front end of a 1957 Chevy Bellaire.
Check out that unusual rusty color. And the headlights! Oh my!
I’ve never quite understood the purpose of a mirror on a cigarette machine but it’s a great place for yours truly to get a selfie. Really- is it so you can see how cool you look with your pack of smokes? Maybe it’s so you can see who is coming up behind you, especially important for spies and for anyone trying to keep tabs on a potential mate in a crowd!
And finally, I never walk past a radio without taking a picture. This one sits atop the fridge in the Lustron kitchen.
What details do you enjoy? Or maybe you’re a big picture kind of person? Tell me!
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Just shows the vast difference between the creativity of the old fashioned ways and the fast consumer lifestyle we have today…
That cigarette machine is crazy! People would flip their lids if they saw something in public like that today!
Modern design is pretty lackluster. It’s a pity too because we think we’re so advanced.
Oh I harp on this all the time…. we think everything is so great in what we know as modernity… but why do we always fantasize over the past??
Eh, it’s more interesting than what we know today, I guess.
I saw a film at the festival here this week about a video-game hooked boy and his grandfather. The grandpa explained how they used to have separate devices for playing music, doing calculations, taking pictures, watching video, talking by phone, etc. The kid could not believe it! So all these things will be museum pieces someday. All that wonderful design work, totally obsolete. Sigh.
Sigh is right. That sounds like a good film!
It was. Called “Team Marco”.