British post war posters and graphics.
These children’s books just won’t leave me alone right now. I still have Tom Eckersley’s Animals on Parade and John Burningham’s lovely London Transport poster work on the list of things to write about here (depending on an appointment with the scanner and an Amazon book order respectively), but as if that isn’t enough, another […]
I’ve been meaning for a while now to dig out some old blog posts from the archives. This isn’t just to do with the current constraints on my time, but also because I’ve found myself wandering through the Quad Royal archives in search of this and that, and coming across things that perhaps could do […]
Every so often I complain that Mr Crownfolio and I haven’t bought anything for ages, but I always forget that these things come in waves. And this week just such a wave has come crashing in to shore. I’ve already mentioned the Morecambe poster, but the main interest is two lots of posters that were […]
See my urgent book. I have had to read it very quickly, because tomorrow it goes back to the British Library for someone else to read urgently too. Now its subject – modernism, bombsites and English culture – might not seem immediately applicable to our concerns here on Quad Royal. But in fact it’s been […]
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. […]
I called up this book out of our library’s reserve stores the other day (you can easily enough find it on Amazon if your library isn’t so obliging). It’s from 1972, so I wasn’t hoping for too much from it, but actually I was surprised. There’s a short introductory essay, but then the bulk of […]