Words & Eggs

La Pratique de l’Anglais, vintage cover via VintageEdition.

(via vintageedition)

Saul Bass poster for Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse. Via Gems.

Jean Carlu design - Shell advertisement, French. Via Vintage Advertising and Poster Art.

Vintage ad for a French dog food: Doggy. Via Boom Underground.

The French Novel: From Gide to Camus. Vintage cover, via Montague Projects.

(via typographie)

Vintage Alain Grée design - French book. Via Lesley Barnes on Pinterest.

Monograph from La chromolithographie et la photochromolithographie, by Frédéric Hesse. Paris: A. Muller, 1897. From the Bibliothèque nationale de France, via We Love Typography.

MERVEILLEUX! “Va chier connard!” Stellar argot design from Bien le Bonjour (Behance).

Via typeverything:

Typeverything.com - Bien le bonjour ! (via Bien le Bonjour ! on the Behance Network)

You have no idea how badly I want this original, mid-century French “POSTES” cast iron yellow mailbox. Via Rue des Louves on Etsy. Gah.

The Portable Voltaire: vintage book cover via vintageedition.

(Source: vintageedition)

La Loïe Fuller — Folie Bergère (Ernest Maindron, Paris 1896).

Jules Chéret, from Les affiches illustrées (1886-1895) [Illustrated posters (1886-1895)], by Ernest Maindron, Paris, 1896.

(Source: archive.org)

(Source: oldbookillustrations)

Paris en relief - See Paris in 3D! Via Agence Eureka. Yes, the little girl’s a little creepy.

Happy French Friday!

Drapeaux - Articles de fêtes: tarif #14 (1934), via Agence Eureka.

Vintage cover design: Publicité (Arts et métiers graphiques), 1939. Via Designers Books.

(Source: crankypressman)

Calligraphed envelope seals, featuring love-related words and sayings in English and French. Here: BISOUS (“kisses”). Available in my Etsy shop HERE.