As a part of building layers to my work I like to produce vintage ephemera like labels and posters.
Quite a few incorporate design elements from originals and then reworked.   
Here is a selection below including a couple of favourites.
 

​The Edison labels were needed when I installed a system of low voltage lighting into the Palace of Curiosities. why I find them interesting is the one to the left is an altered version of an original where as the one on the right is completely made up, but the information used is correct including the patent number... I really love blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake.   

Early Business Card design

Flyer art work for the Marcus Island Mermaid

Experimenting with a printing press I found a mermaid stamp.

In the show the Mermaid was found by the HMS Galatea. I produced this label to attach on to products being peddled by the Palace of Curiosities

Party poster