by Shawn Robare | Aug 11, 2015 | Read
There are a lot of great 80s era pop culture collectibles on display at Branded HQ; toys, books, lunchboxes, stickers, vinyl albums, animation cels, and heaps of magazines and comics. Though I love all of that stuff, when I’m feeling really nostalgic the one...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 1, 2015 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a little while since I dove in and deconstructed an awesome 80s era pop culture bedroom. This past week I had my mind blown a couple times when Pee-wee Herman shared the piece I did on his room from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure on Facebook and...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 21, 2015 | Read
**CONTEST UPDATE** And the winner of the Visionaries Collector’s Guide is… Ryan, @no_thriller! Congrats Ryan! For fans of 80s era cartoons and toys it’s hard to argue that we’re truly living in a Renaissance that is seeing so many of our...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 18, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a kid I spent a disproportionate amount of time wandering around supermarkets and discount outlets every weekend with my mother. Like most kids my mom would drag me out to the store to do the weekly grocery shopping, but unlike most (I think) my mother usually...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 6, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s kind of weird when you think about the difference in experiences between “normal” folks and nostalgia addicts when we stumble upon something that makes us flash back on our youth. I think there’s a yin and yang to how we perceive...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 2, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been awhile since I’ve waded into my personal archive of old magazine back issues and yesterday while moving something in the closet I saw a stack of them piled high and decided to scan through a few. Next thing I knew I was organizing a hundred misc...
