I used to know about design history a long time ago, but then I gave it up to work in the media. Then I gave that up too, so now I’ve got plenty of time to write stuff about posters.
Along with MrCrownfolio, I collect some of the posters and graphics that I write about here. But we’re not enormously rich (some error, surely) and so we tend not to buy from dealers or at the big auctions, but snap up bargains on eBay and wherever else we can find them. As a result we have a collection of a quite a lot of middling stuff, a lot of 10″ x 15″s (cheaper to buy, cheaper to frame) and a few real gems.
MrCrownfolio is in charge of the complicated eBay cleverness which delivers some of these bargains, but has sworn never to reveal his secrets on the internet. So don’t ask.
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I write books about design and love some of your images. Is there any way I could get to meet you and discuss your posters I live in London but am more than prepared to visit [as long as not to Scottish Islands]!!!!!!!!!! ruth artmonsky
Thanks for the nice comment on my blog. Those shop fronts a re so evocative, I used to buy startched wing collars from Dennys in the early 1970s. I am delighted to see that Ruth has also commented here, and by your entries on the great Barbara Jones. You may be interested to know the the 7 Stories Museum in Newcastle own all of the art work for her wartime (I think) children’s book about the tram.
Best Ian
I just discovered your blog and I am loving it. Thanks for sharing all this!