Printed Ephemera
印刷エフェメラ
Dictionary entry
- Matchbox Label 1880s–1970s / Style
The world's smallest advertising print: trademark, image and lettering compressed into a few square centimeters. Japan and Czechoslovakia competed as the great exporters, and phillumenist collecting preserved disposable design as a style.
- Sheet Music Cover 1820s–1920s / Style
The lithographed covers sustained by the parlor piano: scene illustration and ornamental lettering in a single image — the graphics that showed music before the record sleeve existed.