Monthly Archives: June 2012

Put Out More Flags

By crownfolio | Published: June 29, 2012

I was asked to help out earlier this week.  Could I find a few vintage posters to act as inspiration for a designer doing a poster for a retro tea-dance? Cakes, bunting, dancing, something nice and festive – it’s not that difficult to imagine the sort of thing. But that sort of thing turned out to [...]

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This is not a poster

By crownfolio | Published: June 27, 2012

Or is it? It certainly claims to be a poster, as one of the set commissioned for the 2012 Olympics, in this case designed by Chris Ofili. Rather against my will, I have to consider these on an almost daily basis, because a selection are on display in a shop window just a couple of [...]

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No room for horse play here

By crownfolio | Published: June 25, 2012

One day, I am going to move into the Brighton University Design Archives for a month or two, which I think should be long enough to explore. There is a ridiculous amount there (both the Henrion and Design Council archives alone can be measured in metres), so it’s forgiveable that the holdings aren’t all digitised [...]

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Oddities and curiosities

By crownfolio | Published: June 22, 2012

Right you lucky people, the Onslows Summer auction is upon us and it is time at last to see what is on offer. Except amongst the things that haven’t been up before, there isn’t very much that makes my heart beat faster.  It’s a sale of curiosities and oddities, well for me at least.  Things [...]

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Eventful

By crownfolio | Published: June 20, 2012

I have nothing to say about this other than that it is brilliant. I should have been able to tell you that it was for sale at Books & Things too, but I sent the picture over to a friend who comes from Surbiton as I thought it might amuse her.  She only went and [...]

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Winners

By crownfolio | Published: June 18, 2012

As promised, the results of last week’s compeitions.   The first thing I need to say is thank you, because this has afforded me a great deal of entertainment; a high standard of entries came in, almost none of which had been seen before on here.  We should do this more often. All of which [...]

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