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Lions in My Own Garden

Ebay can still, sometimes, come up with the goods.  Like this. For once it is possible to judge something by its cover, and so this is indeed a wall frieze by John Burningham, from 1966.  Mr Crownfolio watched the auction like a hawk for the ten days it was on, and was pleasantly surprised to [...]

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On Show

For those of you in or near London a public information broadcast.  Friend of this blog, Neil Jennings is mounting an exhibition next week at the Art Workers Guild in Queen Square in Bloomsbury.  The cast list looks wonderful, including as it does Edward Bawden, Barbara Jones, Barnett Freedman and Kenneth Rowntree.  And this poster [...]

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Without linen on backside

At last.  I’ve been banging on about PosterConnection’s shop on eBay for quite a while now – its selection is enough to persuade me to be interested in foreign posters every so often.  Now, finally, they are also selling some British designs.  And good ones too.  Pick of the pops has to be this Daphne [...]

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People, bishops and mumbly-jumbly latin scholars

A bonus extra today.  I almost lumped this little treasure in with yesterday’s eBay news, until I decided that it deserved a post all its own. Not that I have a huge amount to say other than this is rather wonderful. It is a portfolio of posters from about 1965, designed by Bob Gill (there’s [...]

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Now we are two

I missed Quad Royal’s second birthday last week, and am now feeling terribly guilty. This is the closest thing to a poster birthday card I could find at short notice. Even if the number and the date are wrong. Anyway, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate  everyone who’s been reading and  commenting [...]

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A good home

Earlier this week, I went to the Design Archives at the University of Brighton, to see if they wanted Daphne Padden’s archives, or at least what we had acquired of it. Fortunately they were not only very delightful but also decided they did want them, and these three images are just a few of the [...]

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