Monthly Archives: January 2011

Que savez vous de la Grande Bretagne?

By crownfolio | Published: January 31, 2011

I got some lovely photographs by email before Christmas (so thank you Adrian Jeffery) and to my shame, what with one thing and another, rather left them to one side.  But now I am here to make amends. Because this is a fabulous thing. It’s the brochure for the British pavillion at the 1958 Brussels [...]

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Golf and pageantry

By crownfolio | Published: January 28, 2011

The weather is grey, the economy going into a tailspin, but still those auctions keep on coming.  This week’s offering is from The International Poster Center in New York. Because it’s in New York, it’s heavy on the usual suspects of Art Nouveau, bicycle posters (which for some reason that escapes me are disproportionally collected [...]

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Books and Canons

By crownfolio | Published: January 26, 2011

Right, back to the bookstacks once more.  In a way I’m rather pleased that there’s a backlog of things I need to write about, it shows that posters and graphic design are starting to be taken seriously.  But more than most, today’s book is both necessary and useful. It’s GPO Design by Paul Rennie, a [...]

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Over-modern and over here

By crownfolio | Published: January 24, 2011

An interesting comment appeared a week or so ago on a older post about Beverley Pick. He was a man.  Bless him… He was my uncle and a very clever man..He also did the original Moby Dick… Beverley was originally from Austria and lived many years in Sunningdale during the winter. Autumn he would visit [...]

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Spacing Oddity

By crownfolio | Published: January 21, 2011

Just in case you thought it was all organised and museum-perfect here, a tale.  I discovered a poster tube in Mr Crownfolio’s office, labelled ‘selling’ and in it, quite apart from a poster I could have sworn we’d sold years ago, I found these two oddities which I had also completely forgotten about.  But when [...]

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Set fair for Hastings

By crownfolio | Published: January 20, 2011

After seeing the Bruce Angrave Hastings poster yesterday, Mondagogo tweeted with a link to her photos of this wonderful object. It’s a strange mechanical weather forecasting device – part of the Victorian weather station in Hastings.  Here’s the whole thing. Although if you look closely, the cartoons aren’t actually Victorian. In fact they look suspiciously [...]

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