Monthly Archives: March 2010

Eckersley discovered (twice)

By crownfolio | Published: March 22, 2010

I hadn’t meant to return to Tom Eckersley so soon, but Mr Crownfolio came across this on eBay. “What do you think?” he said. “I think it’s very expensive,” I said.  With a starting price at £100, it certainly is, even if it is a limited edition of 500. “Do you know what,” he said [...]

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We’re all going to the zoo tomorrow…

By crownfolio | Published: March 19, 2010

Now I don’t normally do European posters.  I know nothing about their styles or their designers, and I have no idea what anything is worth.  This is mostly self-protection; rather too much of my brain is already cluttered up with images and facts about British graphics and posters, when it should be more worried about [...]

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Find me an artist. From 1953 please

By crownfolio | Published: March 18, 2010

Sometimes, writing about graphics can feel like a constant harking back to a golden age of British graphic design, long since lost to the evil forces of photography, Photoshop and general bad taste.  But not everything from that time has disappeared. Like Artist Partners for example, who are not only still going but have set [...]

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Fun and Games

By crownfolio | Published: March 17, 2010

Nice and simple today.  A high quality poster, in good condition, on sale on eBay. Here it is, not occluded by the frame as it is in their picture. It’s a very high quality item* to come up on eBay, and so I’m guessing that the price will end up being rather more than its [...]

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Not laughing, in a perfect world

By crownfolio | Published: March 16, 2010

Now I began this post, if I’m honest, intending simply to poke a bit of fun at poster dealers, and in particular the prices they charge. Because now and again something comes my way which makes this almost irresistible.  Like this. Or to be more precise, this. Now in my head, nothing, but nothing could [...]

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Life (and design) During Wartime

By crownfolio | Published: March 15, 2010

Just because posters were produced at a time when some of the very best designers were working, it doesn’t mean that they were all great design, or even interesting.  This thought was brought on by a collection of posters on sale in Lewes next week. The idea – 20 lots of wartime and post-war HMSO [...]

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