Some more Pin-up Love! Handiedan’s mixed media artworks are delicate cut & paste mixtures wrapped in contemporary antiquity. “She meticulously combines classic pin-ups and movie images with paint, ink, yellowed sheet music, old fashioned playing cards, money, stamps, Chinese papers, old wood, rusted metal and doodles as a (...) Read More about Pin-up Collages by Handiedan (10 words)

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We love Pin-ups & we love packaging (chocolate too!). So props to Kyle Tezak for his beautiful packaging Mindy’s Hot Chocolate in Chicago.  Loving it!

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You already know our obsession with Pin-ups, so when we find some funny & cute photo manipulation pin-ups and animals, we have to publish it! These collages are from Belgian artist Natasa Denic. (...) Read More about Natasa Denic’s Animal Kingdom (3 words)

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In our favorite Pin-up illustrator serie, here is Gil Elvgren (1914-1980). Elvgren has joined the ranks of George Petty and Enoch Bolles as one of the premiere American pin-up artists. His heroines are often caught in humorous but distressing situations. Too bad that nowadays the garter-belt is not as much as popular…

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Florida native Enoch Bolles (1883-1976) is among the earliest and most popular of all the glamor and pin-up illustrators.(...) Read More about Enoch Bolles Pin-up Illustrator (69 words)

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Wow, how amazingly inspirational are the curvy Pin-ups of George Petty ! He was one of the top “cheesecake” illustrators of the 30s and 40s. He began his career with a series of cartoons featuring beautiful girls and their far from handsome beaus.(...) Read More about George Petty – Curvy Pin-up from 1947 (122 words)

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Is there a Trend Spotting on the 1950′s era !? Think Stewardess, Nautical and Pin-ups… Looks like it, right ! We have been felling this Trend for a while now, and it start happening more and more… Look at the Tim Walker shoot of (...) Read More about 1950′s Trends (99 words)

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Zooey Deschanel

While surfing the net I found an amazing compilation of photographs of celebrities shot as Pin-Ups. There was no information on the photographers and at first I thought it may have been one pin-up editorial, but after looking although through it you could recognize that there was a great distinction in style and light of the photography. (...) Read More about Fantasy of the 50′s Pin-Up (100 words)

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American Pop Artist, Mel Ramos is famous for his 1960′s paintings of Pin-up calendars and magazines , I Love his series on the Pin-up, its just Amazing!! [little parentheses Pin-ups are arriving strong as a Trend in Fashion Inspiration boards]. His work is humorous as he often poses the women with(...) Read More about Pin-Up by Mel Ramos (91 words)

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