The New Yorker Magazine Instagram's Ephemera & Popularity Of Matchbooks!
The New Yorker Article Re. The Popularity of Instagramming Ephemera -Featuring Advertising Matches!
MARCH 24, 2015Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera
www.instagram.com/matchbookdiaries
This terrific article references all stripes of ephemera that collectors post to Instagram and singles out the popularity of picturess of matches that are featured by users with thousand's of followers on the site.
An Instagrammer, Bill Rose (@junktype) was quoted: “Most of the objects in my feed are no bigger than a couple of inches wide. They are often so small that my phone has trouble focussing given the close range of my subject.
Confirming Bill Rose's point, another popular Instagrammer, Charles Clarke (@matchbookdiaries) [with almost 13,000 followers] who's page exclusively concentrates on pictures of matches who shoots his matchbooks against a white background was quoted: “I use the white background because it looks clean, and because you can scroll my profile page and it doesn’t look like there are any dividers between the photos. It looks like a big poster.”
All lot of graphic designers refer to Instagram as a means of being plugged into the latest trends in design and to provide inspiration.
The article's author, ALEXANDRA LANGE reached out to Ara Devejian (@LetterGetter), a creative director and by way of his background she quoted him stating: “[he] started his [Instagram account] when he moved to Los Angeles’s superlatively-signed Theatre District. Every day, I try to take a new route to work or wherever, especially going way out my way to discover new places on my bike or in the car, and in turn LetterGetter is the happy byproduct of that curiosity.” At first Devejian wanted to document typographic nightmares—the illegible, the mishandled—but, as with most Instagram accounts, things swung over to the positive. The platform’s users have such a strong preference for things that are pretty (however you define it) that it’s difficult to swim against the tide of posting “bests” rather than “worsts.” “@LetterGetter helps inform some of the typographic projects I work on,” Devejian said, “like the title card I designed for Gymkhana 7. The style of the photos is intentionally flat or sparse in order to see the letterforms as they were conceived.” He goes on to say: “People have yelled at me—thinking I’m about to steal or break something—and then afterwards, realizing that I’m only taking pictures and admiring their car or whatever, tell me their life story,” Devejian says. “I’ve become painfully accustomed to just how fleeting signage is. It’s made me wonder whether I should become some sort of advocate for preservation, in attempt to postpone their inevitable disappearance.”
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FOUND! 1928 Oldsmobile Cover Letter Presenting Their Match Book Co-operative Dealership Advertising Program
In addition to being the President of TheMatchGroup, Joseph Danon has been a avid collector of vintage advertising Match books -amassing a collection comprised of tens of 1,000's of vintage advertising match books dating back over 100 years!
Well, while sifting through his collection, Mr, Danon found this well preserved Oldsmobile Motor Works Advertising Dept. Cover Letter dated March 12, 1928.
The purpose of the letter was to present a novel & low lost Match book advertising co-operative promotional program to be offered all Oldsmobile dealerships for them to participate by reserving the back of the match cover for them to advertise their dealership's name, address, telephone advertising copy under the OLDSMOBLE LOGO between the space above the tag line "A Match for Any Car". Depicted on the front cover was an eye catching full color illustration of a new Oldsmobile model for 1928 with the slogan "The FINE CAR OF LOW PRICE"l Match book.
The cost for the dealer to participate in this co-operative advertising program was the princely sum of .00415 per match book! To underscore the effectiveness of this co-operative advertising program, Oldsmobile as well as the majority of other car manufactures continued to offer this very effective and low cost advertising program to their dealerships up until the late 1980's!
Fast forward 87 years later and TheMatchGroup continues this produce similar co-operative advertising match programs by partnering with many national/international brands such as Davidoff of Geneva, Drew Estate and General Cigar as well as many larger Candle Manufactures using their branded match books and match boxes as means to share the cost of and advertise co-operatively with their retail outlets!
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TheMatchGroup Announces Their New Website GetMatches.com
Please take the time to visit www.GetMatches.com and check out our interactive tools to upload your logo and create your own match book and match box art layout designs!
TheMatchGroup was founded to provide the most efficient & responsive customer service, while offering the LOWEST Factory-Direct Prices and the Quickest Delivery Time in the industry. We produce the highest quality matches and promotional tabletop paper products at low factory direct costs. We offer the fastest order turnaround on the most popular domestically produced match books and boxes – from “proof to product” in a blazing 15 days!
With over 30 years in the industry, company founder Joe Danon's passion and devotion to the historic importance, whimsy and efficacy of match advertising is unrivaled. His devoted and loyal clientele have long benefited from his “Love of Light,” graphic design expertise and unparalleled product knowledge.
Led Zeppelin's Starship One Jet's Match Boxes Sell for $700 on the History Channel's Pawn Stars TV Show!
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Pawn Stars Starship One Matchboxes
By Drew Koch , Mikah SargentWe bet you'll never guess what was valued at as much as $3,000 on a recent episode of "Pawn Stars..."
Matchboxes. Wait, what?!
But wait, these weren’t just any old matchboxes — they were from Led Zeppelin’s legendary Boeing 720 plane, The Starship One. (Video via YouTube / Thanasis Papadimitrou)
"If you framed them up and presented them well, $2,500 to $3,000 dollars for these," said Warwick on "Pawn Stars.""$2,500 might seem like a lot for some matches, but rock and roll collectors would go crazy for this stuff."
After an expert [in paper ephemera] examined the matchboxes, they were deemed authentic.
And if that wasn't cool enough, each box included The Starship One's logo and the names of several important passengers it carried over the years, including Elton John, Peter Frampton and Alice Cooper. Rock on.
There's actually a huge demand for vintage matches, matchbooks, and the matches themselves in the collection world. In fact, there's thousands of active listings for them on eBay.
But the seller of The Starship One matchboxes only needed to go as far as the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop to find a price he was happy with.
He ended up selling the collection for a cool $700. Now, that's aplane good deal!
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NEW Facebook Group Created for Fellow Lovers of Light (a.k.a. Match Collectors)
All you Hard Core (and not so Hard Core) Match Collectors out there, please be sure to check out my new FB Group "Advertising Match Book & Match Box Collectors Group"
Lots of great pics of a sampling of #matchbooks and #matchboxes that Joe Danon and #TheMatchGroup have produced over the past 28 years! Please feel free to post pics of examples from your match collections. Enjoy!
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