Monthly Archives: April 2010

Lucky Dip

By crownfolio | Published: April 30, 2010

As promised last week, it’s random image day – a whole heap of posters that I have discovered along the way but not managed to use in a post.  All sizes, all shapes, every one a great piece of design. Here’s a Mount/Evans for starters – it’s from the V&A collection and I’ve never seen [...]

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Trouble with Harry

By crownfolio | Published: April 29, 2010

When I posted the still from the Ipcress File with Patrick Tilley’s Drinka Pinta Milka Day poster in it, I thought it was just an amusing chance to see a poster in situ. What I didn’t know was that I’d stumbled on a coincidence of hilarious and ironic proportions.  Patrick Tilley wrote to give me [...]

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If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

By crownfolio | Published: April 28, 2010

Often, I end up writing about posters on here that I, for one, can’t afford.  Like the Royston Cooper Hastings that I mentioned last week, which is fantastic, but at £1000 a pop, I’m probably never going to own it.  I’ve always rather fancied this 1951 Abram Games design too. But as it was last [...]

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Tom Eckersley : life and work

By crownfolio | Published: April 27, 2010

As promised a while back, the moderately personal biography from Tom Eckersley : A Life in Design, slightly edited down for your entertainment and education.  With some pretty pictures too. LCP Exhibition poster, 1979 Tom Eckersley OBE RDI AGI was born in Lowton, Lancashire on 30 September 1914.  His birth preceded that of the concept [...]

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By coach, via Royston

By crownfolio | Published: April 23, 2010

I was planning to do a random image amnesty today, which would have been a collection of fabulous posters that I have picked up but not managed to jemmy into a blog post, and which are all now idly shuffling their feet in the great image waiting room which is my computer desktop. Except I’m [...]

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A football, a train and a pint of milk.

By crownfolio | Published: April 22, 2010

I’ve been sent a couple of nice things recently by readers. (Only via email though. No real bribery has yet been attempted but please do feel free, posters particularly welcome.) Anna pointed out that there was another Lewitt-Him children’s book out there, which she knew of as her mother had kept it from her own [...]

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