Monthly Archives: February 2010

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the signal box

By crownfolio | Published: February 26, 2010

The dust has hardly settled since Harrogate, but notheless, it’s railway poster time again.  Oh goody. Coming up in just over a month’s time, another giant auction of picture-perfect railway posters, this time at Bloomsbury Auctions in New York.  And once again, I am trying to be enthusiastic, but not quite managing it. This one’s [...]

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Art for all

By crownfolio | Published: February 25, 2010

Tracking down a bargain is hard work these days.  There aren’t many to be found at Onslows any more, and even on eBay, something has to be pretty well hidden not to make good money.  So pretty much the only pleasure left are the local auctions. For example this picture and description in Battle: E [...]

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Vintage design for modern times

By crownfolio | Published: February 24, 2010

Tom Eckersley is all over the web at the moment.  Yesterday he was here on Grain Edit (and hence tweeted and reposted hither and thither).  And over the last few months, he’s also been here, here, here, here and even all the way over here in Italy.  (There are loads more, I just lost the will to look at them all).  The two [...]

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Britain Can Make Lovely Posters

By crownfolio | Published: February 23, 2010

A further digression here.  I’ve spent the morning assembling the first draft of the links page, and in the course of it have rediscovered this wonderful photograph: It’s the General Printing part of the 1947 Britain Can Make It exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The aim was to showcase the consumer goods which would [...]

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On the buses (or not)

By crownfolio | Published: February 23, 2010

I keep planning posts, but then they get taken over by events.  Like this, another interesting poster that’s popped up on eBay. This isn’t, I will freely admit, a classic piece of design, but it is an interesting piece of social history.  I can’t explain much better than the seller has. This is one of [...]

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Modernism to go

By crownfolio | Published: February 22, 2010

Right now, you can pick up the bargain of the year so far on eBay.  It’s this: and this and also this In fact it’s five posters designed by Wim Crouwel for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in the 1960s, and as I write, they are currently going for under £10 for the lot.  Which [...]

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