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Mr Black will see you now.

I haven’t finished with exhibition design, not by a long way.  A copy of Misha Black’s Exhibition Design recently arrived in the post. He’s a much droller read than Beverley Pick – as well as designing some rather nice exhibitions too – so parts of that will definitely be appearing on here one of these days. [...]

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Happy Christmas

From Daphne Padden and the coach companies.  And all here at Quad Royal of course. As befits my BBC past, there will be some repeats over Christmas and New Year; a normal service will return in January.  Have a good time until then.    

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Shop Early Post Early

Apologies in advance if this post ends up being a bit like the parish newsletter today, but there are a few things I’d to tell you about, even though they aren’t entirely related.  So bear with me, and the flower rota will be at the end. Firstly and also excitingly, the BPMA have also got [...]

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Refined Lard

Today something alarming but also brilliant, the Sainsbury’s Own Label book by Jonny Trunk. It’s alarming because I’m now old enough for people to be digging up forgotten bits of my past and selling it as retro.  In this case, supermarket packaging.   We always shopped at Sainsbury’s when I was small, so these designs [...]

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Brave New World, again

I’ve just got round to watching Saturday night’s Festival of Britain programme, and wanted to draw your attention to it as it’s only  on iPlayer until this coming Saturday.  (Apologies, as ever, to those of you who are outside the UK and so can’t get hold of it.) There are quite a few things to enjoy [...]

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In another place

I keep trying to contemplate posters, but my brain isn’t complying and wants to think about archaeology instead.  So, for one day only, the stone circles of Wiltshire as represented in graphic design.  Only on Quad Royal. Although our first offering isn’t all that. Despite the fact that it’s in the collections of both the [...]

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