Thursday, May 7, 2009

Vintagraph.

I found this pretty cool website named Vintagraph that reprints old posters going as far back as World War I. There's lot of really cool stuff on their site, and their prices are pretty reasonable. I am really having a hard time trying to keep myself from buying ten of them. But I've got a ton of posters I can't hang already, so I'm going to have to resist.

I like this one a lot, I might buy it for my bathroom that has a wall that I don't know what to do with.

The only complaint I have is that their sizing is a little strange. 8x10 and 11x17 I get, but the 19x13 and 22x17 are just weird. And that's with an inch to an inch-and-a-half white border around it. I guess it's so you can matte it, but that's like a two-inch matte with an inch-and-a-half border. Strange.

I really wish they had more travel posters, the only interesting ones are the "See America" poster (which is off to the right here) and the "Grand Canyon" poster. I guess the Yellowstone Poster is cool too, but I'm just saying that I could use some more options in the travel department, because I think there were a lot of those kinds of posters back in the day. I guess that's all they could get the rights to. Hopefully, they'll add more. I will keep checking in the meantime.

They have a pretty robust New Deal and WPA (Works Progress Administration) section; I love the posters from that era, especially this one. It's just so perfect.

1 comments:

granadamuchacha said...

This site is so cool! I need that swimming poster!!