damnyouryan:

new items in my Etsy store!

from top to bottom:
- Mad Men Newsweek cover (watercolor)
- Helena Bonham Carter (pencil)
- Elizabeth Bennet (watercolor)
- Adele (watercolor)
- Florence Welch (watercolor)

I’ve reduced prices on a lot of other items as well.

visit my store here if you want and thanks for looking!

Check out this artist’s watercolor of our Mad Men cover! It’s the top one, with all four characters coming out of an elevator. Nice job, Ryan!

So here we are still reeling from the past two weeks of ‘Mad Men’-mania, when we stumbled across this gallery on the 60s reality behind the series—and, most notably, this stunning August 1965 photo of the actress, model, sex symbol, and trailblazing French siren Brigitte Bardot. 

[Photo: Ghislain Dussart / Gamma-Rapho-Getty Images. A special thanks to Gucci for sponsoring nwktumblr this week.]

Women and men relate to Don in very different ways. 

Jon Hamm talks about groupies and Don Draper’s politics. 

About to dig into these Mad Men cupcakes…nomnomnomnom. The chef: acpants!

Our team of Mad Men pinners (recruited from tumblr!) have done some awesome work over on Pinterest.

Look! A Rick Santorum-signed copy of this week’s Mad Men issue, for whatever reason.

Mad Men gets the gender stratification of the time right, along with the prevalence of smoking, the heavy drinking culture, and a fair amount of sleeping around. That was certainly the case at Newsweek In the ’60s among the married writers and editors and the young single women hired to become researchers, then considered “a really good job for a woman.

In which our secretary-turned-stellar reporter tells us how things were at Newsweek back in the 60’s. 

draping:

In church #draping

OMG, this is a thing?! Draping!

nwkarchivist:

Sexist Ads From The Early 60’s.  See Them All Here

Courtesy: Our amazing photo researchers

What do you think?

Wow! How were these ok!? Nothing makes me think “CONSUME” like a fresh dose of misogyny in the papers.

We’re building out a Pinterest board of Mad Men-era decor (furniture, accessories, etc.) and are looking for a few collaborators. Want to help us make this awesome? Send us a message with your email or Pinterest name and why you’d be perfect for the mini-team! We’re just looking for a few who know a Betty Draper armchair when they see one.