Vintage Philosophical Packaging

 

It looks like someone took old Walter Kaufmann paperbacks from the 60's and redecorated a 1970's era ice cream parlour on that basis.

 

And it looks like that someone might be ... ME.

 

Imagine a world in which safety matches, lozenges, celluloid collars, tooth polish, pastilles, lithia water, anthelmintic vermifuges, and sundry patent medicines, in which the active ingredients include arsenic, sarsparilla and wintergreen, are never vended, save in cheap, disposable packaging graced by the staring visages of famous, dead, white, male European philosophers.

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From there I branched out into disco and travel posters and such-like.

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In short, if you can't spell 'euhemerism' without the 'ephemera', this product packaging is for you.

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Check out my shop if you'd like to buy a sticker or something.

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Oh, and I tossed in some Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka because - I have nowhere else to store them!

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All images are © John Holbo, 2021-2.

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