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Johannes Gutenberg, the man who’s behind the 15th century media revolution...
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Top Left: Untitled (shallow drawing 1), Top Right: Untitled (shallow drawing 2), Bottom Left: Untitled (shallow drawing 3), yeah you know it, Bottom Right: Untitled (shallow drawing 4)
Quick drawings made on index cards during mid-term thesis critiques. Portable, pocketable nature of index cards are very enjoyable. These drawings could be considered as formal explorations/musings/studies. A brief formal brain/muscle storm.....
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Poison Break Wisdom: “Sustainability Guilt”
"The feeling of guilt one gets from not being able sustain themselves as well as they want it to, in a variety of different arenas in personal sphere such as work, professional practice, health, relationships and etc.” - cigarette break
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Brief History of Trade Cards by Ben Crane
Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful.
By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook--as the children are doing in the Chase's Liquid Glue trade card shown here.
Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm.
The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective.
Although trade card collecting began over 100 years ago, today's strong interest in trade cards began relatively recently. Trade cards that were bought for ten cents thirty years ago frequently bring ten dollars or more in today's market--and some have even sold for over a thousand dollars.
Crane, Ben. “Brief History of Trade Cards.” Tradecards.com, www.tradecards.com/articles/history/history.html.
Gies & Co. Occupational Trade Cards
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