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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! That's so interesting! I always wondered about that label. Thanks

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 1d

Lots more over here matchbloc.com/blogs/news/a...

Alternative lives

A picture can paint a thousand words and an illustration of your good life versus one of drink, poverty, or bad health can be quickly communicated even on a small matchbox label. Hanging out with that...

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 1d

Alternative lives - with and without the booze. The giant rat is optional. 🐀 🍷

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 10d

☔ 🌦️ 🌈

Three mid-century Eastern European labels depicting rain

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 13d

also invested in life insurance. Worth getting a quote?

Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 13d

I used www.cavendishonline.co.uk they find the best insurance for you for no fee

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 13d

Happy International Coffee Day ☕

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 16d

Scans from Lora Lamm. Grafica a Milano 1953-1963.
In the written history of mid-century Italian and Swiss Graphic Design, Lora Lamm’s name is often overlooked. Lamm was a major contributor to the Milanese design style of Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. designreviewed.com/artefacts/lo...

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 16d

World Rivers Day 🌊 🐟

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 17d

Garden Festival 1975

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 21d

Hello Autumn! 🍂 🍁

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 24d

Happy World Cleanup Day.
Mop, cloth, sweeping brush - let's go!

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 25d

Interflug Airlines destination labels. 1970s, East German. More here www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/i...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27d

photoboothjournal.com/2018/01/22/s...

girl in photo both, she is holding a fish

girl in photo both, she is holding a fish, again

girl in photo both, she is holding a fish, yet again

Two girls in photo both, one is holding a fish

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 29d

"Mezinárodní Strojírenský Veletrh", an annual International Engineering Fair held in Brno ⚙️
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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · Sep 11

An assortment of 1970s rolling paper packaging

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 11

I Planted a Forest Four Years Ago. Beau Miles returns to where he planted a bunch of saplings four years ago and it’s a bonafide forest. “They’re all taller than my house now.” [kottke.org]