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Give that penguin a fish!

By crownfolio | Published: April 23, 2012

A recent acquisition on eBay was a few copies of Modern Publicity from the late 1950s and early 1960s.  I was going to share their delights with you anyway, but when I looked into the archives I realised that I’ve never actually blogged about this properly at all. Then when I looked a bit harder [...]

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Classified

By crownfolio | Published: April 13, 2012

This is the list of all Penguin books in stock or due to be printed in 1958. Mr Crownfolio is minded to start collecting Penguin ephemera.  He may have a point.

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Sheepish

By crownfolio | Published: April 10, 2012

In a slightly incongruous justaposition, the severe lines of London Transport photo-modernism bring you… …baa lambs (courtesy of the London Transport Museum). Happy Easter.

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Things

By crownfolio | Published: March 23, 2012

Which lead on to other things.  Like this greetings telegram. It came from the local ‘Antiques and Collectors’ (i.e. 1970s cookery books, artificial flowers and old tools) market just near me.  A rare gem in amonst the flotsam, then. Its main story – and why this telegram exists at all – is that it was [...]

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retromonochrome

By crownfolio | Published: March 19, 2012

A slight digression today, but as I shall be producing a wide range of 1950s graphics to support my case, I think it’s probably allowable. For the last few months I’ve been writing a small book for Shire about 1950s Modern, looking at all the different ways that being modern was expressed in the design [...]

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Midcentury

By crownfolio | Published: March 16, 2012

We used to go to Midcentury at Dulwich before we left London to go west, but that’s a long time ago now, and they certainly didn’t sell any posters at it then.  But now they definitely do. The next one’s tomorrow, and in a set of coincidences which make it look as though I have [...]

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