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abduzeedo.com — A few days ago I was working on a project that needed some Vintage Images, like old ads. I decided to look for them on the web, more precisely at Flickr.com. After like 5 hours I had found so many images that I had to stop or else I would spend the rest of my life viewing them. Here are some of these amazing ads I found...

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mumblingmynah, on 01/18/2008, -3/+37Nugget of vintage wisdom: "Blow in her face and she'll follow you anywhere."
Commonwealth, on 01/18/2008, -1/+16Sometimes I just sit in my room and squeeze my money for hours at a time.
johnsaulrubio, on 01/18/2008, -1/+12Land sakes! An over AND under shirt!
Here, son– this safety razor should keep you occupied while mom and I go to the mall.
C'mon, honey. (blows smoke in face)
vhammon, on 01/18/2008, -3/+10first example...interesting how radically different the government approach is today on spending and saving..food for thought.
Slackdragon, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6Are you ***** kidding? People can't handle the MINOR nosebleed that is the Iraq war! True, WWII was shorter, but it was a meat-grinder. More soldiers died in a MONTH of WWII than all of the Iraq war. People today are far too pussified to handle something like that.

Back then, my grandparents were actually sacrificing their way of life to win a conflict. At home and on the front line. At home they were cutting back on meat and sugar and aluminum and other day-to-day goods. Today ***** are bitching and whining every single day about a war that doesn't impact their lives a SINGLE bit other than what they read on a blog or an RSS feed. They still have their iPod and their iPhone and sip their latte at Starbucks and Digg up stories on their new Macbook Air. Oh, the sacrifice of our generation! My heart bleeds!

We're a bunch of spoiled pussies who wouldn't know how to sacrifice a thing for the greater good if we had to.

Be careful what you wish for. You might get a "cool war" one day.
drouk1556, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5If you're referring to the girl on the left, take a seat. What are you doing here?
DAAaaN07, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Dugg for ''If you blow in her face, she will love you forever."
inactive, on 01/18/2008, -2/+5Dugg for Vespa girl no.1
Commonwealth, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3Man, you should have specified where you wanted your beard. Now Satan is going to give you an ass-beard.
Zaeyde, on 01/18/2008, -2/+5http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4158/tv0019medm ...

That's my favorite. The girl in the image is beautiful and I love the artistic style of it.
gemlogger, on 01/18/2008, -2/+5The first bunch were from back in the day when they needed real money to run a war. Now they just print more.
scyform, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3For digestion's sake, smoke camels! For some reason the vintage tobacco ads are my favorite; an era where doctors would diagnose you with "not enough smooth flavor" and send you on your way with a carton of cowboy killers...
dlinkwit27, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3I love the "blow in her face, she'll follow you anywhere ad. Has that ever worked?
Tinendo, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2This kids scare me.
Ica7us, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2so by the title of this submission "Design inspiration from vintage ads" I must admit I expected an old ad, then a new ad that was in some way inspired by the older one. Bummer. Stilly dugg, because it's not political unless you live in the 40's, despite what gemlogger has to say.
KidOsiris, on 01/18/2008, -1/+3That baby is badass. I wish I had a beard.
Then perhaps chicks would "digg" me.....maybe..
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geniusNOTatWORK, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1I love vintage ads, they are very beautiful. Looking at these reminds me of Mad Men, which is a damn good show for those who haven't seen it
OwdenBowden, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1Sweet
fxu1989, on 01/18/2008, -1/+2I love vintage.

Grunge, torn/worn, old, black&white ..

I also have a great collection of vintage porn on one of my hard-drives... gotta find it.
Annesgreat, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1I think vintage ads are amazingly inspiring. More links to cool ad archives here: http://www.hotcards.com/run-a-vintage-print-ad-cam ...
latrosicarius, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1Last pic = wtf?
chicken101, on 01/18/2008, -1/+2i'd hit it.
dagooh, on 01/21/2008, -0/+1The girl in this picture is freaking me out.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adacces ...
Chirp08, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1yeah, as a designer I'm interested in what he derived from his research and what his end product ended up being. Design wise, the Southern Flight ad really jumps at me, great use of negative space.
michaelb1, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1I just bought a Merkur Safety razor similar to that Gillette in the ad. It's gives an awesome shave and cheaper then the Mach3.
etx313, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1I'd hit the ***** out of it.
SteelChicken, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1awww, look at the poor self-loathing person
cadmiumpaint, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1cool post. if you are into it, Taschen books has a series of vintage advertising books organized by decade. each volume is a phonebook of vintage ads. really the best archive you'll find anywhere. Any library should have it. Research shouldn't start and end with the internet.
PeppermintPig, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1And that's how people justify theft and murder.
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