Anne Taintor Anniversary

25 Years of Making Smart People Smile

In 1985, Anne Taintor glued the words “intellectuals gone bad” onto an advertisement clipped from a vintage magazine and featuring a pair of proper and glamorous women.  Twenty-five years later, what began as one woman’s attempt to make a living working from home while caring for her young daughter has become a thriving and wholly original business based on giving voice to modern women’s secretly subversive thoughts.

Anne’s wry text paired with images of idealized women from the 1930s, 40s and 50s appear on greeting cards, magnets, sticky notes, eco-friendly totes, and dozens of other stylish yet affordable products. Anne has been called “the patron saint of female frustration” and “the queen of collage kitsch,” and her products have come to serve as pop-culture touchstones for what More recently called “a community of people who share [our] sweetly cynical outlook on life and are delighted to be in on the joke.”