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My mother bought a new lap top just before New Year's and went through all the digital family photos in the process of copying stuff over to it, even salvaging some really ancient ones from floppy disks, and we finally located photos from Kesudalen -05 that I lost in a disk crash. So now I'm suffering from Kesudalen homesickness, and finally did something with the photos I took there this past summer of all the great vintage packaging design that is slowly disintegrating with age in the medicine cabinet.
Note the two shades of blue in the zig-zag pattern at the bottom!
Same effect here, great Art Deco design and font.
Swedish Army First Aid bandages. My grandpa was an army officer, so there's a certain amount of stuff like this lying around up there. He was also a great fisher and made crazy fishing lures for fun, from old tins, broken pieces of jewelry and anything shiny that caught his fancy. I should photograph them this summer.
Great, simple design, I love the plain script, the letter spacing and the alternating fields of grey, white and black.
I brought this one home to Stockholm with me, actually, it's so cute and tiny, and I had vague plans for a nurse outfit. Red and white is such an effective colour combination, I should do more of that..
As I think I've mentioned earlier, things don't get thrown away in Kesudalen unless we really have too, and since the place has been in the family since 1946 it's a veritable treasure trove of everyday items like these. My great-grandmother hoarded sugar during the war and we threw out the last, damp packages of rock-hard 1940's sugar this summer, to give you an idea.
Note the two shades of blue in the zig-zag pattern at the bottom!
Same effect here, great Art Deco design and font.
Swedish Army First Aid bandages. My grandpa was an army officer, so there's a certain amount of stuff like this lying around up there. He was also a great fisher and made crazy fishing lures for fun, from old tins, broken pieces of jewelry and anything shiny that caught his fancy. I should photograph them this summer.
Great, simple design, I love the plain script, the letter spacing and the alternating fields of grey, white and black.
I brought this one home to Stockholm with me, actually, it's so cute and tiny, and I had vague plans for a nurse outfit. Red and white is such an effective colour combination, I should do more of that..
As I think I've mentioned earlier, things don't get thrown away in Kesudalen unless we really have too, and since the place has been in the family since 1946 it's a veritable treasure trove of everyday items like these. My great-grandmother hoarded sugar during the war and we threw out the last, damp packages of rock-hard 1940's sugar this summer, to give you an idea.