About
Megan Cummins, Editor/Founder
I’m a graphic designer / business owner (yousmellsoap.com), living in Austin with my awesome fiancé and 2 cats that believe they’re human.
When it comes to design, I research like crazy and create mood boards to develop the personality of the project. I think it’s my nerdy side that has helped me to achieve the “award winning” title. I get addicted to rummaging through archives looking for those great visual treasures. After realizing I had an ungodly amount of inspiration folders on my computer, I decided to put my findings to better use and create a blog to share with you like-minded ladies and gents!
If you like vintage goodness, this blog is going to be your online crack. Yep. It’s going to be an ongoing stream of drool-worthy, thought-provoking, creative-inducing eye candy- from print to packaging,typography to illustration. If it’s beautiful and inspiring, it’ll be here.Have something you think would be a good fit on the site? E-mail me at vintagemeohmy {@} gmail.com
If you’d like to make me feel special, follow me on Twitter!
Aaron Heth, Admin/Contributor
I’m a graphic designer / business owner (yousmellsoap.com), living in Austin with my awesome fiancé and 2 cats that believe they’re human.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because you just read it in Megan’s bio above me. We’re very similar.
History has always seemed a lot more fun and interesting to me when you’re looking at it through the lens of beautiful type and packaging as opposed to straight up facts and figures. There’s a ton of cultural intricacies to be found on every little piece of ephemera, and I really enjoy discerning them. You can find me on both Dribbble and Twitter.
Jeremy Pruitt, Contributor
aka THINKMULE™. I am designer/artist/outdoorsman living in Colorado with my talented wife Melanie and our boston terrier, Bug.
My mother is a antique dealer in Kansas and would take me to auctions, thrift stores, garage sales, etc. From this I gained a real interest for all things old and as I grew older, the appreciation for the craftsmanship of vintage design which continues today.
I work hard to learn from the past and apply it to my work now. It fascinates me how so many designers did so much without the aid of computers, the internet and made beautiful things by hand-they were true artisans. I do my best with my own personal work to live up to their craftsmanship. You can also find me on Dribble and Pinterest.
23 thoughts on “About”
Vanessa Longthorn
July 2, 2011 at 5:11 pm
A great resource. Thank you. Will be dipping in from time to time.
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Jen
July 5, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Megan
I never comment on blogs – really – but, I had to tell you how much I LOVE Vintage Me Oh My! Seriously, I look forward to checking it out everyday. It is actually the first thing I do after popping on my laptop. I am a graphic designer myself and drool over every thing you put up on here! It truly inspires me. I have been collecting vintage advertising and packaging for a while now and then I found your blog on Graphic Exchange. I think I actually screamed upon finding it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the yummy eye candy.
Keep sharing the beauty!!!
Jen
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vintagemeohmy Post author
July 6, 2011 at 3:06 am
That made me so ridiculously happy- you have no idea Thank you for saying something!
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dylan
July 7, 2011 at 2:11 pm
i am LOVING this blog! the dieline is a little too…polished for my taste, if that makes any sense…this is such a wonderful source of the kind of material that really inspires me for what i want to make. love! thank you.
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vintagemeohmy Post author
July 7, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Hehe..I know what you mean. I won’t tell Gibbs that : P If you haven’t already, you should rummage through all of my vintage posts on the dieline..there are some pretty good ones up, but from now on I’ll be posting without any restrictions right here : )
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Ken Murphy
August 1, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Thank you for the inspiration!
Your posts are the best and most thoughtful collection(s) I’ve seen yet. From a fellow designer interested in vintage and modern vintage, I check the latest you share daily.
Thanks from Portland, Maine,
Ken Murphy
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Justin
September 14, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Hello,
I wanted to thank you for helping my research be a pleasant walk through design history. I am currently researching turn of the century (1900′s) design and typography for a branding project. I love everything on your site and was wondering if there are any other sites that you reference for vintage graphics. Thanks again, I enjoyed everything you have posted.
Best,
Justin B. Soest
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Michelle Clermont
September 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Great reference material for my grand project of restoring a 139 year old store.
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vintagemeohmy Post author
September 19, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Oh wow that sounds amazing! Send us your website & pics when you’re finished!
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Carla Blumenkrantz
October 6, 2011 at 4:30 am
Amazing website/blog! Please keep it up! I’m so glad I found it . . .
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Paper Acrobat
January 26, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Wow these are cool!
Just think these were all hand drawn by commercial artists – no computers in those days – real talent!
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Jake Ball
January 26, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Dear VintageMeOhMy,
I want to make you aware of an online resource that visitors to your site might enjoy. It’s a video library of vintage pop up books, the only one of it’s kind on the web. This library contains high-quality videos and images of rare and valuable pop up books that were produced from 1890 to 1978. Each video also includes a PDF of the entire book so you can read the text of each book. These books are wonderful treasures of art that we want to share with fellow fans of pop up books and art lovers. These really are excellent videos that deserve a look.
Pop up books and paper engineering have become a hot topic and this could also help drive traffic to your site. Our intent of sharing these videos is not to try to sell to your visitors, none of these books has been in print for years. This is strictly for entertainment and demonstration purposes only. The videos can be found at http://www.childrensbookstore.com/vintage-pop-up-books. All you would need to do is put a small hyperlink on your site to that URL to share these great videos. Each video also has embed code so you post the videos for your visitors without them leaving your own site.
We will release a new vintage video about once per month.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jake Ball
Founder
childrensbookstore.com
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Sera Sahibzada
February 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Love this site! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Isaiah
April 18, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Where did you go?! I hope everything is well with you and look forward to more great content.
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Nancy Frye
April 21, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I can’t think of a thing for improving this site yet, as I’ve only just arrived, but I’m in love. Followed a link re. Jules Verne book covers and now I’m lost in all the glorious 19th century graphic art. I love designing in this style, and these collections are a glorious inspiration. Thank you!
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SloN
September 26, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Love your site!!!! Keep the good stuff comin…
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Mélissa
March 18, 2013 at 10:20 am
Very inspiring!
Keep it up guys!
Bisous from France
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Fresh Paint
May 1, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Love your site, very inspirational.
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Val
June 22, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Best website ever!!!
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Hillary
July 29, 2013 at 2:00 am
I would love to purchase a large print of the Mille Bournes Design. Is this possible?
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Megan Cummins Post author
July 29, 2013 at 2:54 am
If you’re referring to an old post, you’ll need to follow the source link at the bottom of the post to contact the owner. If you need some help, email me at vintagemeohmy @ gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do.
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Emily Sefcik
August 7, 2013 at 11:06 am
Your website is incredible!! I do hand-lettering and am so excited about this new source of inspiration!!!
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Megan Cummins Post author
August 7, 2013 at 11:40 am
Thanks so much Emily! I’m glad you like it. We’re about to launch our new site design which will make digging through the archives and finding things a little easier. If you ever get inspired by something on the site, send us photos! We’d love to see how you use them!
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