Weekend Onesie: Bill Jones - Part 3

Weekend Onesie: 

Bill Jones

Part 3

People who check in on this blog on a regular basis know that I am a huge fan of vintage graphics. Some of the finest? From corporations looking to motivate their employees. I adore their big, broad use of color and presentation of iconic ideals, characters and images.

During the 1920s, a number of American companies produced motivational posters and cards to promote industrial efficiency and ethical behavior in the workplace. Motivational sayings were combined with high quality illustrations to provide easily readable images to convey the messages. During this time, Parker-Holladay Company, a British firm, was also producing motivational posters, featuring the fictional character Bill Jones. 

Here's more!

And there are a lot of them.

 

Simple and direct...

These graphics have become iconic.

And part of history.

- uptonking from Wonderland Burlesque

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Working - Tate McRae, Khalid

Working My Way Back To You (Forgive Me, Girl) 

- The Spinners

Friday Fun: It's National Arbor Day!

Friday Fun: 

It's National Arbor Day!

Today is one of my favorite holidays.

Anything that honors the beauty of nature is aces in my book. 

And National Arbor Day means celebrating everything that has to do with trees!

Ah, boys and their trees... who doesn't long to climb the trunk of a big one?

And apparently, based on the lads below, I am not alone in my appreciation of our leafy friends.

Why, I, personally, can't think of a better way to honor the day.

But you do you... celebrate your way.

Me? I've got a date with a mighty oak out at the prairie.

And if I'm lucky?

I won't be alone!

Beauty is all around us.

Take time today and appreciate it.

Get outside and commune with nature.

- uptonking from Wonderland Burlesque

Trees - Twenty One Pilots

Trees - Rush