Mark Powell’s Bic Biro Drawings on Vintage Envelopes.Oh my! How craaaazy talented is Mark Powell? Talented with a capital T! Mark is a London-based artist who draws amazing portraits of the elderly on the backs of vintage envelopes using nothing more than a standard Bic Biro pen. Extremely...
Vintage Knoll Catalogue.What I love about much of Knoll’s furniture is that to me, it appears timeless. Paradoxically, what I enjoy most about these photos is that they are, without question, dated. These photos are a period piece. There’s a comfortable...
Design Free Thursday | Famous Photos Recreated With Lego.I am often amazed at all the crazy things people manage to think of, just like this weird and wonderful series of recreated iconic images. I am not exactly sure who was responsible for this work, but I am just going to assume that this was...
Design Free Thursday | Battle Of The Sausages.French born, Brussels based artist Fabien Strain creates these hilarious collages titled Sausage Battle using a combination of vintage cinema magazines and pictures from food catalogues. So silly and kinda wrong, but it's oh so right! I...
Design Free Thursday | Smoking Kids."Smoking Kids" is a compelling and slightly disturbing personal project by Brussels based photographer Frieke Janssens. She was inspired to create this series after watching a YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler. This is...
Design Free Thursday | Vintage Weight Gain Ads!"Good news for thousands of girls who have no sex appeal!" "If you want to be popular, you can't afford to be SKINNY!" Holy $hit batman, has the world we live in changed or what? Not only are these politically incorrect slogans the...
Moments in History.I don't know if this is the case with you, but I find that old photographs really speak to me. Ok, so I don't actually hear them talk or anything like that - I haven't lost the plot to that extent. It's just that I find old images to be a...
Design Free Thursday | Dear Photograph.Dear Photograph is a new Tumblr blog that features people's old photos in the same location today. I have seen it literally explode all over the internet in the last couple of weeks and it is not difficult to see why - it is such a...
Salone del Mobile’s Vintage Poster Art.Domingo Antonio Robledo is a man with a very cool name. Don't you think? But believe it or not, that is actually not why I invited him to guest post on yellowtrace. Crazy, I know. Domingo as a journalist, a photographer, video producer,...
