Kill All Flies

It’s August, it’s the silly season.  In Quad Royal world this means that I have a house full of people, a holiday to plan for and no time to write anything.  Elsewhere, it manifests itself in the fact that news is so slack that posters have made an appearance on the BBC news website. Wierdly, […]

Such posters

Now, bear with me.  I know that I’ve gone on about Hans Schleger’s design work for Macfisheries before, and I also know that some of these photographs are a bit duff.  But I still can’t resist showing you some more of these. . They are simply too wonderful to resist. Once again, the images come […]

Something fishy going on

Now here’s a thing.  To be precise, it’s a website about Macfisheries, full of pictures of pre-war shops and employee reminiscences.  But it’s also got a fair smattering of the work of Hans Schleger, who designed pretty much the entire corporate identity for the food chain throughout the 1950s, from shop layout to packaging design […]

Modernism to go

Right now, you can pick up the bargain of the year so far on eBay.  It’s this: and this and also this In fact it’s five posters designed by Wim Crouwel for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in the 1960s, and as I write, they are currently going for under £10 for the lot.  Which […]

Books

When I began writing this blog, there really weren’t many books around about the posters and graphics of the period.  But since then, the situation has improved a lot.  Although the bias is still towards railway posters and the pre-war period, and there are now a reasonable selection of books available.  Some of the most […]