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Vintage Color & Design: 50's Tourism Brochures

Vintage Color & Design: 50's Tourism Brochures

By evad // January 22, 2009
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Here's some color inspiration by way of Florida tourism brochures from the 1950's. This great collection was put together by newhousedesign and can be found here on flickr.


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Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.

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shore

Posted Jan 22, 2009
I adore this (living in Florida!)...I did a series on the old fruit and vegetable labels of about the same time.
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Monster!

Posted Jan 22, 2009
i like these a lot. really cool.
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tenkerasu

Posted Jan 22, 2009
my dad has a key from some motel in san francisco from the 50s or 60s, and it's got that same kind of cursive. it's great stuff this stuff. ^^ thanks for making a post about it!
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lizcrimson

Posted Jan 22, 2009
what a fun post. i really want to see the water skiing elephant! and the weeki wachee spring of the mermaids!
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lizcrimson

Posted Jan 22, 2009
you inspired me. :)
weeki_wachee
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Seascape_lamps

Posted Jan 23, 2009
Who these could inspire my lamps.
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angelafaye

Posted Jan 23, 2009
very cool !! :D
love your vintage posts
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woodztream

Posted Jan 23, 2009
This is just great! I am just about to design a website for my fathers jukebox bussiness so this will be very inspiring! =)

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