Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List More from Flashbak
The images below are from Columbia University’s collection of commercial stationery, featuring architectural illustrations and gorgeous typography for factories, warehouses, mines, offices, stores, banks and hotels. Industries in this album of architectural stationery vignettes range from livestock, textiles, printing, roofing, and brewing to wagon works, cordage and merchandising. Columbia’s Robert Biggert Collection of printed … Continue reading "Vintage Architectural Stationery Vignettes" The post Vintage Architectural Stationery Vignettes appeared first on Flashbak.
“These venues have a very ‘talkative’ quality visually – they‘re expressive in design, reflecting aspects of local culture, values, and even fantasies” – François Prost, Love Hotels There are about 37,000 Love Hotels in Japan. Sex on the clock in a rented room is big business in Japan, catering for 500 million lovers … Continue reading "Sex In A Japanese Love Hotel" The post Sex In A Japanese Love Hotel appeared first on Flashbak.
The Livre de la vigne nostre Seigneur is an anonymous illustrated treatise on the Antichrist, Last Judgement, Hell, Heaven, Christ and Antichrist. It features 15 illustrations that mark the End of Days. What makes the series particularly interesting is its lack of human figures wracked in pain and horror. Elsewhere in the book, it’s … Continue reading "15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470" The post 15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470 appeared first on Flashbak.
“Happiness isn’t forever. We were happy and we didn’t know it.” – Alex Maspon on Ibiza in the 1980s In these straightened times of polarised debate, herd mentality, religious fundamentalism and social conformity we need Oriol Maspons’ pictures of 1980s Ibiza. The Spanish photographer’s portraits of Ibiza holidays in the ’80s takes us … Continue reading "Ibiza Undressed – Uninhibited Clubbing in the 1980s (NSFW)" The post Ibiza Undressed – Uninhibited Clubbing in the 1980s (NSFW) appeared first on Flashbak.
” All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.” – Deckard, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner,1982 In another world, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) was … Continue reading "Blade Runner – Starring Divine and Grace Jones, 1982" The post Blade Runner – Starring Divine and Grace Jones, 1982 appeared first on Flashbak.
More in history
Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O‑o-dee. And we know that she was a member of the Kiowa tribe in the Oklahoma Territory. And we know that the photo was taken in 1894. But that smile is like a time machine. O‑o-dee might just as […]
Excavations at a necropolis in southern Italy’s Liternum Archaeological Park revealed two ornate tombs—one of which belonged to a gladiator, according to an etched marble epitaph. “This necropolis, thanks to its excellently preserved wall structures and tombs, adds an important piece to our knowledge regarding the history of the [ancient Roman] colony of Liternum,” […]
‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review JamesHoare Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:57
During WWI and WWII, the Women’s Land Army contributed greatly to food production in Britain. These women worked tirelessly on farms across the United Kingdom in an effort to support struggling farmers who had lost their mostly male workforce to the armed forces. They completed a variety of agricultural jobs, including harvesting, plowing, fruit […]
For all the means of communication and exchange we’ve established between the cultures of the world, no matter how distant they may be from one another, we still have no truly universal single human language. The reason could date back to antiquity, when we first attempted a grand collective project: that of building a tower […]
