Monthly Archives: August 2011

See Again

By crownfolio | Published: August 31, 2011

The end of the summer holidays loom, normal order will be restored soon.  But in the meantime, here is proof that not all good design either comes from a known designer or has been seen and seen again.  I love every single one of these designs, and they deserve to be better known. In the [...]

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Art and craft

By crownfolio | Published: August 26, 2011

A little bit of Ravilious for you on a Friday, yet another thing which I have unearthed on the bookshelves as a result of the move. I particularly like the little electric transmission logos at the bottom. Sadly there is no further Ravilious to be found inside, although there is a collection of wierd and [...]

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Today’s lesson

By crownfolio | Published: August 25, 2011

Which is, don’t move house if you own lots of posters.  The picture below is the corner of my study.  There are some more Quad Royals behind the sofa too, and a ton of smaller ones scattered everywhere else. Most of those aren’t going to make it onto the walls in the forseeable future either. [...]

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A post of a copy

By crownfolio | Published: August 23, 2011

Or indeed a copy of a post.  Because the post I’ve pulled from the archives today is indeed all about reproduction.  The subject came up again in the comments here recently, so I thought it might be interesting to revisit this. The eBay links no longer work, but the argument still applies, I hope. Exhibits [...]

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Finders

By crownfolio | Published: August 18, 2011

Amidst all the chaos of moving, a pleasant surprise, in the form of this Lewitt-Him children’s book, which was discovered squashed between two bigger poster books on the shelves. Now I’ve blogged about their books before, and even mentioned this in passing but I had no idea we owned a copy of it at all. [...]

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AP Again

By crownfolio | Published: August 17, 2011

As the piles of boxes grow around me, here are some more Artist Partners delights from the archives. Today, a second helping of the AP2 Artists Partners book.  (Is it a brochure?  a catalogue?  I’m not entirely sure how to address it). I ran through a few of the obvious highlights by the big names [...]

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