“Love Is…” chewing gum packaging insert, 1994.
The early-to-mid 1990s saw an explosion of chewing gum packaging featuring all sorts of imagery, much of it seemingly irrelevant to the underlying product. Inserts might include film stills from The Godfatheror Jurassic Park, pornographic pictures, or, in this case, characters from New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali’s syndicated “Love Is…” series, which originally dated to the 1960s and ’70s.
SpidInfo #1, January 1991
The cover of the first issue of the early 1990s magazine SpidInfo, with an anxious nude couple turned away from one another in bed.
Gorodok (Little Town): 1993-2012
The1996 title screen of "Little Town [Gorodok]," a hit sketch comedy show created by Yuri Stoyanov and Ilya Oleinikov.
Georgii Deliev, "Mask Show [Maski Show]," 1991-2006.
A 1991 title screen for the sketch comedy program Maski-Show (Mask Show, 1991-2006) showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.
Boris Yeltsin’s first appearance on “Kukly [Puppets]” in 1995
In 1995, the Boris Yeltsin puppet made its debut on the influential political satire show Kukly (Dolls or Puppets), which ran from 1994-2002 on NTV.
Leningrad Rock Club
A wall of graffiti in the courtyard of the Leningrad Rock Club (1981-1991) on 13 Rubinshteyna Street in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), which featured fan street art dedicated to USSR's most revered rock-music collectives. When the wall was painted over in 2010 by the bulding's new proprietor, this caused a public outcry from both rock fans and the many surviving musicians from that era, who sought to preserve the LRC's legacy and designmate the wall and the building a historical landmark.
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