Monthly Archives: June 2011

RIP COI

By crownfolio | Published: June 29, 2011

So the Central Office of Information is to be no more (news here in the Guardian).  This is a sad end because once upon a time they produced some rather wonderful posters.  Here’s a handy thought from them for this time of the year. Coincidentally, I reccently bought a history of the COI from Abebooks. [...]

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Hoarding

By crownfolio | Published: June 27, 2011

Today, a very unusual sight.  Yet it’s one that shouldn’t be a rarity at all, because it’s posters doing what they are intended to do, advertising things.  Here on hoardings sometime in the mid 1950s. Mostly, this is such an everyday scene that no one takes any notice, never mind a photograph.  But this time, [...]

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Recent Acquisitions

By crownfolio | Published: June 24, 2011

In the days when I used to be in the V&A, which is quite some time ago, each department used to have cases where they displayed recently bought objects, before they found their place in the main collection, with a small paper sign in which read Recent Acquisitions.  A friend of mine got hold of [...]

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Nothing New

By crownfolio | Published: June 21, 2011

Worried about your Facebook presence?  Not sure how to optimise your Twitter account for the benefit of your business?  Finding all these modern communications just a bit confusing? Well you would have been just as worried about new media eighty years ago, or it seems. The leaflet, should you want to take comfort in the [...]

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Round and about

By crownfolio | Published: June 20, 2011

We’re back from France.  There were no posters there that we could see, but we did find this roundabout. I think Barbara Jones would have liked its exuberance.  We did. Here, the left hand cat has run away with a piece of meat (at least I think that’s what it is meant to be, even [...]

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En Vacances

By crownfolio | Published: June 12, 2011

Still on holiday, I’m afraid.  Our normal service will return next week.

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