Monday Matticchio - Underwear

Sunday Safari - Sartorialarium

Michael Sowa, Fowl with pearls

L.H.Jungnickel, from Wiener Werkstatte postcard series

Ann Wood, scrap birds

Leontine Greenberg, Long neck bird reachs the edge

Alvaro Arteaga, Ready for first class

Natasha Fadeeva, thanks to La vie est belle

 Waldemar Swierzy, Cyrk poster, 1974

 Bruce McCall, Catwalk cover for the  New Yorker

 Ronald Searle, Lottie the Hottie, from Beastly Feasts

 Stanislav Kolibal, 1961, thanks to flamenconut

two illustrations from a 1978 Russian children's book (artist unknown), 

thanks to letslookupandsmile

Vyaceslav Legkobit, Fowl with pearls, thanks to Kickcan and Conkers

Donald Brun, Tuch AG, 1955

Listen to the Walrus

A little hommage to the great John Lennon.

This inspiring animated video has been on YouTube for a couple of years,

but just in case you haven't seen it yet... 

Mad Men & Crazy Critters, 9th episode: Carosello

Sepo, promotional ad for Studio Maga, 1923

Two weeks ago I received an unexpected offer to teach two extra courses in typography and advertising!

Been very busy ever since preparing the materials, which lead us to today's offerings. 

Studio Maga postcard for Aquila needles and tools for stockings 

 Gino Boccasile, 1940, Italian Transcontinental Airlines

Arces Landenna, Liquore Strega, 1955

When I was a child, growing up in 1960s-70s Italy, it was a common ritual and family routine for children

 to be sent to sleep after Carosello. This unmissable variety show was our pleasant fix of daily brandwashing: 

a theatrical interlude with fanfare introduced the comedic and musical feast, an ever-changing carousel 

of cleverly crafted advertising spots, all reliably broadcast between 8:50 and 9:00pm, everyday from 

1957 to1977. Various animation styles and techniques were featured, often done on the cheap but 

with a lot of wit and fantasy, and peopled by popular characters like Calimero, Caballero e Carmencita, 

Pippo l'ippopotamo, La Linea and my favorite, the fabulous Fernet Branca claymation. 

Yes, those were the days! 

Erberto Carboni, ads for Bertolli olive oil and egg pasta Barilla. early 1950s

 Hope you enjoy these graphic remnants of the long lost glory of our Belpaese's 

advertising art, Animalarium's little retro hommage to Carosello!

Two Olivetti birds: the first by Marcello Nizzoli for Lexicon, 1949,

the second by Giovanni Pintori for Lettera, ten years later.

Sepo, ad for Cavallino Rosso, 1953

F. Barducci, logo for Agipgas, 1953, and Agip's logo 

in the redesigned version by Bob Noorda, 1972

Armando Testa, ad for Pirelli, 1955

 Sergio Ruffolo ad for Italian broadcasting company RAI, 1969

BTW, can you believe that Mad Men 4 has already reached episode 11?

I am so unashamedly addicted!

Monday Matticchio - European Cow