I thought I’d share a few of my favourite vintage compacts that I’ve been collecting. And by collecting, I mean I’ve been filing the images in my wish list folder, hoping that one day I’ll be able to buy some of them.

I thought I’d share a few of my favourite vintage compacts that I’ve been collecting. And by collecting, I mean I’ve been filing the images in my wish list folder, hoping that one day I’ll be able to buy some of them.

First of all, I love all things vintage. Vintage packaging, however, is my absolute achilles heel. I find it rather serendipitous that I stumbled onto a fantastic collection of vintage European matchbooks this morning a few months in advance of our journey to Europe this fall. My fiance and I are already small time collectors of matchbooks (among other things) and I find myself constantly amazed at the simple solutions artists and designers alike are able to fit on such a small amount of real estate. Truly graphic design in its purest form. If you like matchbooks, here’s a little video by Navigators I found sometime late last week which fits nicely into the “match” theme.
