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By: Tsuka sa

Tsuka sa — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:25:44 +0000

Amazing. Thanks for sharing

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By: nsnaveen

nsnaveen — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:40:36 +0000

These are amazing artworks.
when i started as DTP operator 10yrs back in an AD agency my art director was working with airbrush. he did not like me doing it on photoshop
But its really amazing to see him working with airbrush. after seeing it i learned use photoshop more effectively.

thanks for sharing these artworks.

nsnaveen

By: ted

ted — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:20:12 +0000

great work but I can’t believe Toulouse Lautrec wasn’t featured with his Mulin Rouge poster/paintings.

By: Preston Lee

Preston Lee — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:26:35 +0000

@james,
Interesting thoughts. I agree with you {if I understand what you are really getting at}. There are somethings that the computer helps us do better–I won’t deny that. Let’s see Cassandre design a web page without a computer.

@DesignInformer
I agree with you on that one. But you also have to keep in mind that the work that some of these artists were doing in their time was considered to by distasteful. Just a thought.

@Kylie
Great to see your comment here! Mmm. Tootsie Rolls. It would be really cool to see those original designs.

Thanks all, for your great comments.

By: Jason Aiken

Jason Aiken — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:46:47 +0000

Very Cool!

Jason

By: Kylie

Kylie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:45:50 +0000

My great-grandfather was a graphic artist in the early 1900s. He designed the original tootsie roll wrapper without a computer. Some of the prints my family still has are amazing, I cannot believe the time involved though!

By: Design Informer

Design Informer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:02 +0000

Man, these designs must have taken sooooo long to make. I’m so thankful for the tools that we have today. It just makes life so much easier, but at the same time, because of all the tools accessible to everyone, lot of people are claiming to be designers nowadays, even though they have no design skills whatsoever.

By: Craig Scott

Craig Scott — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:12:52 +0000

The Use Spades not Ships poster is a nice, clever idea!

A few of these would have been airbrushed.

By: TGDStudios

TGDStudios — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:32:24 +0000

Awe, the beautiful, beautiful classics! No matter how many times we see them we still find something wonderful to look at!

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By: James Lastig

James Lastig — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:08 +0000

I would say more about the traditional vs digital discussion, but since you’re not going into that with this blog post, I’ll only say this.

Feet are enough to move us from 1 place to another, yet people still use cars, airplanes, trains etc.

{most of) These posters are beautiful though! Way to go in honoring our graphic design history.

By: Karol K.

Karol K. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:58:34 +0000

Nowadays it’s hard to imagine that this kind of stuff can be created without a computer … at least for me

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:01:33 +0000

It doesn’t matter what medium is used to make art. Obviously people have been making art much much longer than computers have been around to assist them. However the fact that a piece was composed on a computer or made out of construction paper does not make the art any better or worse.

By: jared thompson

jared thompson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:12:29 +0000

reminds us all of what brilliant work can be created without the use of photoshop or a graphics tablet.

By: designfollow

designfollow — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:03:02 +0000

great list

thank you

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