Category Archives: London Transport

Thinking in numbers

By crownfolio | Published: January 9, 2012

For anyone who thought the infographic is a modern phenomenon, the London Transport Museum is here to set you right. They’ve just created a new display of graphics about numbers, which I am mainly drawing your attention to because this Schleger is both fantastic and not often seen. Interestingly, it’s from 1938.  These kind of [...]

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Swiss eye

By crownfolio | Published: May 13, 2011

I’ve mentioned Poster-Auctioneer before in passing – they’re a specialist poster auction house in Switzerland.  And until now I thought they only sold Swiss posters (for Swiss people, etc).  But either I hadn’t looked at their website properly, or they’ve expanded it, because now they have a poster shop with plenty of things for immediate [...]

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On the buses (and bus stops too)

By crownfolio | Published: March 17, 2011

One of the real joys of writing this blog is getting a response on a subject from People Who Really Know.  So after my post about long thin posters, it was very good to hear from Michael Wickham who gave me a lot more information about where these kind of posters were displayed.  Along with [...]

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Pursued

By crownfolio | Published: February 28, 2011

I found these while looking for something else altogether on the LT museum poster site. And I’ve never seen them before. They’re a rather surprising departure by Eckersley-Lombers and date from 1938. The design reminds me more of book covers of the period than posters.  But it’s great. While we’re in the domain of London [...]

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Country pleasures

By crownfolio | Published: June 21, 2010

The car broke down on the way home last night, and real life is generally intruding in one way or another, so proper posting will resume tomorrow. In the meantime, have this by way of an apology. It’s by Sheila Stratton, it’s from 1954 and it’s one half of a pair poster, thus. And that’s [...]

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The ghosts of Notting Hill Gate

By crownfolio | Published: June 8, 2010

I’m always intrigued by the afterlife of posters.  Most design history – and indeed almost any kind of writing about them – concentrates on how they were made, who designed them, how they were printed and so on.  But I’m just as interested in what happened to them afterwards.  What did people think about them [...]

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