Specialty: Southern pride in poster form
Price Range: ($) Budget - ($$) Mid-Range
Letterpress, like manners, is an old art. Though there are decidedly less formal options in our modern world, both show character and charm, and for that, they deserve to be preserved. Using one to display the other, well, Old Try has it covered.
The Whitsons live in Boston, but come from Alabama and North Carolina. As Southerners surrounded with a lack of honorifics and saccharine tea, they set out to create some reminders of home.
Fresh and creative with nary a Georgia peach in sight, the couple doesn't rely on common imagery to populate their prints. Instead, their thoughtful execution represents each state and the region with fondness. Even a lifelong New Englander like myself can appreciate the strong typography and graphic style of Old Try's posters.
For more about Old Try, visit their store page over at Marketplace.
(Images: Old Try)
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Comments (20)
so awesome!!!!
Love this! I hope the manners print is back in stock soon!
oh wow awesome to see the "hotty toddy" on a post!! i think my friend has that same one
hotty toddy is the cheer from my college Ole Miss (Univ of MS)
@CCCB12 - A hearty "GO TO HELL OLE MISS!!!!" to you.
Haha, the "no, sir," and "yes, ma'am," etiquette of the South startled me when I was in Alabama with family over winter break. I'm a teenage girl from LA and am not accustomed to being "ma'am'd." I got paranoid for a moment that maybe I was aging rapidly and looked twice as old as I am until they also "ma'am'd" my then 11-year-old sister. I think I want that poster now just to make me laugh.
LA means Lower Alabama, right?
I actually ordered the 39/43 poster last week - can't wait to get it...
Happy to see this company on here, I hope they do well
florida is NOT part of the south. sorry yall....
@ MUDDYMUDSKIPPER: 'course it does *chuckle*
@ ONOMATOPOEIAS: that would be *y'all*...and yes, it is
are you a snowbird? or just grammatically & historically challenged?
(just jesting - couldn't resist - *sheesh* don't want to alert the grammar police)
LOVE this post, btw :)
I'll have to check this out. As a Savannah to Boston transplant I'm always looking for ways to bring my roots into my home.
No, thank you.
I'm not a fan of how some of these prints are glossing over certain issues from the South. Seems a bit too "the South will rise again!" trashy to me.
I guess I'm a bad Southerner.
amen katy.
i'm from georgia, and i love the south, but some of the messages on these are verging on "heritage not hate." uggg
I am from Virginia and I love being Southern. I say yes, Ma'am and Sir and it is hard to stop even when people give me an odd look. However I agree that some of the posters seem to glaze over more important details. We may joke now about how the Mason-Dixon line divides the sweet vs. unsweet tea drinkers, but we would hardly boil it or its history down to "Pretty Simple" The G.O.P. poster is funny since that is only for a "South" that is around 40 years old. Otherwise, the "South" followed the Democratic party. In the end it is art, you buy what you like of it, but I highly suggest you don't read what they artist writes about it...
@MATTSTER Your comment made me way to happy. I am a Savannah to Oakland, CA native. I grew up by Daffin Park and went to Savannah High when it was still on Washington, Ave. I never thought I'd say it, but I miss Savannah a lot. I'd like to retire there.
excuse the typo...
I grew up in Richmond, Virginia. While I'd like to say that the South can be celebrated better by not reducing it to catch phrases (or invoking Georgia peaches -- lazy, lazy AT), I know that Richmond in particular has a fetish for kitschy bumper-stickery expressions of identity. (Seriously -- next time you're in Richmond, you'll be flabbergasted by the number of cars with vanity plates. And they used to have this mania for big gaudy pennants hanging outside the front door, sporting emblems like dogwoods blossoms and fleur-de-lis.) So while I see that there's a market for the equivalent of a "Kiss me, I'm Southern" T-shirt, I'd rather get that message across by wearing a seersucker suit.
Bee for Brian, I grew up in the Other Virginia, also known as Fake Virginia, also known as Fairfax County, and have had half a dozen different vanity plates since getting my license 20 years ago. And 16% of Virginians do, the highest percent of any state. It's a delightful way to show some creativity and originality and takes a bit of the stress out of sitting in traffic. And besides, how can one resist when the state charges only $10 more a year for them?
Lupinelle I agree, Virginia is known for its vanity plates. Bee for Brian...that isn't a Southern thing, that is a Virginia thing. The flags outside the front doors, well that is not something that is only found in Richmond, Virginia, or in the South.
But as a Virginian through and through...I do agree with you that some of these says are very similar to the "Kiss me, I am Irish" slogans.
QUOTE: the South can be celebrated better by not reducing it to catch phrases (or invoking Georgia peaches --
@ BEE FOR BRIAN: ok, now my feelins are hurt *chuckle*