Saturday, April 26, 2014

Vintage Apothecary Labels

Now this is marketing. The nice folks at World Label bring us a collection of vintage-style apothecary labels. The sheet is a customizable PDF file, so you can add text using any font on your computer. 


Here's an example of the labels in use.  They're obviously aimed at the Martha Stewart crowd, but would be equally at home adorning all sorts of prop specimens and preparations. 


This is another good example of how those of us with a darker bent can plunder the tools and techniques of home crafters.  Odds are that I'll never decorate my bathroom with faux-Parisian toilet water bottles, but the exact same approach will produce some cool period storage bottles for a vampire hunting kit. 


4 comments:

Chris said...

If you click through to Cathe Holden's "Just Something I Made" Blog and check out her freebies page you'll find a bunch of other vintage inspired graphics that can be useful for all sorts of potential projects.

Dr. Theda said...

Great post (as usual)....
We love these "customizing" Projects that you post here...

Propnomicon said...

@ Chris

There's some great stuff there. When things are a bit sparse in Mythos prop land I troll crafter sites like hers for goodies.

@ Dr. Theda

Thank you for the kind words. I'm inherently lazy, so fill-in-the-blank PDFs are a godsend.

Phil said...

They're a great thing for all of us Props. Don't feel share about sharing obscure stuff like this in the future.