Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s)

Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels are available as prints. They did a book too, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed.

P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that I’d written about this collection before. But I picked different labels so it’s all good.

• art
• illustration
• Jane McDevitt

Mid-Century Modern Matchbox Labels From Eastern Bloc Countries (1950s-1980s)

Look at how beautiful these mid-century matchbox labels are — they’re from Eastern Bloc countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, etc.) from the 1950s to the 1980s. These are part of a collection by Jane McDevitt. Prints of some of these labels are available and there’s also a book.

• design
• Jane McDevitt