Friday, February 27, 2009

shanghai girls


Remember back in the 90s when vintage Chinese ad posters were all the rage?






This bicycle poster says, "Happiness is Within"...



I found this one twelve years ago and it is still one of my favorite things...



Posters from Zitantiques.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

what a coincidense! i a'm just about to put on a post about almost the same - shanghai nostalgia! i bought various objects and post cards when i was in china, in fact i have a postcard with the same motif as the last poster...well there's probably a lot of people that has that one : )

Laura said...

ha! i guess great minds think alike :P

kadler said...

Ha, I live in Hong Kong so they're still all the rage. :)

sheezamageeza said...

hi! i just came across this somehow wandering... i have the same bicycle poster in my house! it's a favourite. and nice to know what the text said. thankyou.