Monthly Archives: June 2010

Country pleasures

By crownfolio | Published: June 21, 2010

The car broke down on the way home last night, and real life is generally intruding in one way or another, so proper posting will resume tomorrow. In the meantime, have this by way of an apology. It’s by Sheila Stratton, it’s from 1954 and it’s one half of a pair poster, thus. And that’s [...]

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Sepsis, fuel and dark beer

By crownfolio | Published: June 18, 2010

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the Onslows catalogue is now up and complete – eighteen lovely pages of posters for you to look at it, and all of which you can bid for via the internet. So with the sale less than two weeks away, I thought I’d better take a proper [...]

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Great Northern Games

By crownfolio | Published: June 17, 2010

Today, a public information broadcast for those of you in the North of England. No, not that the London Underground is more efficient than trams. Rather, Abram Games : Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means is opening at the Dean Clough Crossley Gallery in Huddersfield (actually the gallery is in Halifax I am told, sorry about that) on Saturday. [...]

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Dark and mysterious

By crownfolio | Published: June 16, 2010

Ages ago, when I last wrote about the Shell educational posters, I mentioned the wonderful designs of Tristram Hillier as being perhaps my favourites of the whole bunch.  And now a few of them have come up on eBay. In total, the seller has five of Hillier’s wondeful designs  for Nature Studies on offer, advertised [...]

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Such posters

By crownfolio | Published: June 13, 2010

Now, bear with me.  I know that I’ve gone on about Hans Schleger’s design work for Macfisheries before, and I also know that some of these photographs are a bit duff.  But I still can’t resist showing you some more of these. . They are simply too wonderful to resist. Once again, the images come [...]

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Daphne Padden

By crownfolio | Published: June 11, 2010

After posting briefly about her a while back, I’ve been trying to find out more about Daphne Padden and her very individual poster designs. Some of my favourites are the ones she created for British coach companies in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They’re almost child-like in their simplicity and delight – I’ve never seen [...]

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