Category Archives: posters

What a Carry On

By crownfolio | Published: July 4, 2011

I’ve never written about the Keep Calm and Carry On poster on here until now, mainly because the internet is already thoroughly pock-marked with its image and the story done to death, so I was bored of the whole thing before this blog had even begun (and rather assumed that everyone else was too).  But [...]

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Hoarding

By crownfolio | Published: June 27, 2011

Today, a very unusual sight.  Yet it’s one that shouldn’t be a rarity at all, because it’s posters doing what they are intended to do, advertising things.  Here on hoardings sometime in the mid 1950s. Mostly, this is such an everyday scene that no one takes any notice, never mind a photograph.  But this time, [...]

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Hurrah

By crownfolio | Published: May 18, 2011

I’m not really here today because I’m off on a mission. But here’s something in the meantime. It’s a little 10″ x 15″ GPO poster, by Daphne Padden, of course. I’m hoping it’s going to be appropriate, because if all goes well today, I shall be returning with a further heap of Padden posters in [...]

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Beck indeed

By crownfolio | Published: March 28, 2011

While I pointed out the P&O archive a while back, I also said that I wanted to come back to it.  And there’s one very good reason for doing so; his name is Richard Beck. The handful of posters that he produced for P&O are that rare thing, home-grown British modernism.  And it looks first [...]

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Save Your Bit

By crownfolio | Published: March 25, 2011

I’ve been rummaging around in the VADS picture archives again, and to my delight have discovered that the Imperial War Museum have uploaded many, many more war posters recently.  I’m not even a quarter of the way through them yet, but this set did particularly amuse me.  They start off fine, even if I don’t [...]

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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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