Coke Side of Life: Coca-Cola Art Remix
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Ancient Egyptians began bowling in about 5200 B.C. German and British people also enjoyed the game, but it was the Dutch settlers who brought their version of “Dutch pins” to America in the 16th century. They played their games in the middle of Manhattan, which is still sometimes referred to as the “Bowling Green.” Originally a nine-pin game, bowling in New York attracted some shady characters and was eventually outlawed; in order to get around the gambling laws that prohibited it, alley owners simply added another pin. And the rest is history.
Lumbered with the Fred Flintstone image for years, tenpin bowling has recently found a retro-cool status among the young and the fashionable.
If you travel to Atlanta, hometown of ‘Coca-Cola’, you should check out the new Ten Pin Alley in Atlantic Station. The place is owned by cool cats Ashton Kutcher and Wilmer Valderrama, servers wear vintage-inspired bowling shirts and the dj plays very groovy tunes. So ‘pick a cherry’ and ‘hammer the pocket’. Fabulous atmosphere and a guaranteed good time!
For all the bowlin’ lovers out there: here you can see an original ‘Coca-Cola’ poster from the forties plus the Remix version. Enjoy!
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American Graphic Design
Image by Alki1
Advertising agency ad for Knoll around 1965. From Knoll Design by Eric Larrabee, designed by Vignelli and published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
Stuart Davis: Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York), 1938
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Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York) , 1938
Stuart Davis, Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892, Died: New York, New York 1964, Harper's Bazaar (Commissioner), gouache on paperboard, sheet: 14 3/4 x 22 1/8 in. (37.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the United States Information Agency through the General Services Administration
1995.27
This work is the only surviving design of the artist’s demolished mural for the Communications Building at the World’s Fair held in Flushing, New York, in 1939. This gouache was originally commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar magazine for its February 1939 issue. Impression of the New York World’s Fair is an interpretation of various architectural elements at the fair, such as the Perisphere and the Trylon, and of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee at center stage.
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