Monthly Archives: February 2010

A lesson in poster sizes – from Tom Eckersley

By crownfolio | Published: February 19, 2010

I got told off the other day for being poncey, because I described the Post office ‘Properly Packed Parcels Please’ posters as Quad Crowns.  Now this is close to being a fair point, but at the same time I think the proper names for poster sizes are lovely things and should be used more. So, [...]

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Mr Bawden designs a railway poster

By crownfolio | Published: February 18, 2010

You’d think that the subject of the Morphet’s auction had been well and truly exhausted – it was only a poster sale after all.  But there was one more thing I wanted to say about it, and that’s Edward Bawden. I knew he’d done some rather wonderful London Transport posters before now. This one was [...]

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These classic posters, they’re all rubbish you know

By crownfolio | Published: February 17, 2010

This link to Design magazine online has been on the bookmarks for a while, but I’ve never quite got round to exploring it.  But, a bit of random surfing while bored and tired the other evening came up with this: It’s an article about how most modern public information posters are rubbish. “…the standard of [...]

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Matching poster to artist, one local auction at a time…

By crownfolio | Published: February 15, 2010

A few interesting posters are coming up for auction next week at Dreweatt’s Bristol salerooms (if I remember rightly, they’re the ones in the converted church right at the top of Clifton). Seven lots of posters have come from the family of the artist Percy Drake Brookshaw.  I’d never heard his name before, but this [...]

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Railway posters vs design

By crownfolio | Published: February 12, 2010

It was a long day, watching the Morphets auction.  And as all of those posters went buy, one after another going for way more than the Crownfolio budget, I found myself getting more and more jaded.  Until, by the end of the auction, I was quite glad that we’d only bought one single lot. It [...]

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The biggest poster auction ever. Perhaps.

By crownfolio | Published: February 10, 2010

As mentioned below, the Morphets sale last month was a one-off spectacular the likes of which may not be seen again for some time. This was certainly true in the Crownfolio household, where the event involved three computers (two downstairs for watching while child-minding and cooking, one upstairs for actually placing bids) and an entire [...]

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