USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1950s (via thngs)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
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Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info: http://adamuseum.be/expositions-soviet-design-red-wealth/
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)
Biscuit packaging, Soviet Union, 1950s (via)
Top: Lemon biscuits, bottom: Orange biscuits
Soviet radios. Covers of instruction booklets (1950s).
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
Soviet design
1. Elekma - food processor (meat grinder, dough kneader, mixer, coffee mill) (1986)
2. Electric spinning weel (1978)
3. Ob - home radio receiver (1980s)
(via Moscow Design Museum)
Tea packaging labels from the Soviet Union (1950s)
Teas were named after their locations: Tseylon tea, Indian tea, Georgian tea, Krasnodar tea (a city in the South of Russia), Azerbaijanian tea, Chinese tea. There was also the name of the tea packaging factory on the back of the pack.
(via)
Vintage ads for contraceptives (Soviet Union, 1950s)
Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)