Monthly Archives: July 2011

Advanced or gimmicky?

By crownfolio | Published: July 27, 2011

It’s a bit unfair to apply too much hindsight to other people’s critical judgements.  Classics are sometimes not spotted as such at the time, while designs that are feted often don’t stand the test of time. But in the case of posters, it’s so rare to get any kind of contemporary reaction to them that [...]

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Travel, send, deliver

By crownfolio | Published: July 22, 2011

Please accept my apologies in advance, but Quad Royal is going to be a bit flakey for the next few weeks.  Not only is it the summer holidays, but we are apparently moving house next month too.  A normal service will resume in September, I hope. None of which is the reason for the short [...]

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Don’t mention (all of) the war

By crownfolio | Published: July 20, 2011

Back in my student days, now rather some time ago, I was sent to chaperone some Belgian friends of the family when they made a short visit to London, to assist with the language and the mysteries of the London Underground. There are three things that I remember clearly from this trip: a meal out [...]

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Shiny happy people

By crownfolio | Published: July 18, 2011

Or at least one person. He’s by Manfred Reiss and I would guess dates from some point in the late 50s, although as he’s not yet in the BPMA catalogue I can’t give you an exact date. Reiss did quite a few designs for the GPO, as well as for ROSPA during and just after [...]

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U-Turn (on the river)

By crownfolio | Published: July 15, 2011

As I am sure many of you will remember, when we debated the subject of reproduction posters, and London Transport reproductions in particular, I said something about how I really wouldn’t want to buy a poster with ‘This is a Reproduction’ stamped all over the bottom. It turns out that I am wrong, because we’ve [...]

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Every poster tells a story

By crownfolio | Published: July 13, 2011

Well, a few do at least.  This justaposition is so wonderful that I have pulled it out from the comments for a post all its own – but it’s not my discovery, the Eye-Spy skills belong to mm instead. So, here is the Ramsgate poster, as posted on Monday, from the Swann Galleries sale. I [...]

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