British post war posters and graphics.
So the Central Office of Information is to be no more (news here in the Guardian). This is a sad end because once upon a time they produced some rather wonderful posters. Here’s a handy thought from them for this time of the year. Coincidentally, I reccently bought a history of the COI from Abebooks. […]
This has been hanging around on the bookshelves for a bit, waiting to find a home. Which is quite a tricky problem as I can’t exactly roll it up as it’s on card. Fortunately I’m starting to quite like it where it is; it may be there for a while. The design is by Royston […]
So it’s back to work after the birthday festivities, which today means a brief round-up of eBay and auction news. Such as there is. Thebasement101 seems to have an almost inexhaustible stock of slightly obscure London Transport posters backed on linen. He has put another three up for sale this week, of which my favourite […]
Happy New Year. I’ve had flu, so Quad Royal will be easing itself gently into 2011 for the next week or two. Today, I will be mostly reminding you about this. A coach. Which is advertising The Golden Age of Coach Travel on BBC4 tonight (full details here if you want to know more). I have […]
I’m really glad we don’t collect railway posters very seriously. Because we’d be stony broke by now. This year has just been sale after sale of high quality railway posters (with a fair slew of London Transport stuff too). And now, to round off the year, there’s another one. Onslows’s December sale titles itself Vintage […]
I spy with my little eye… …some Daphne Padden posters for sale. And I’m rather pleased about it as her work really does deserve more attention and acclaim than it has got so far. The one above is being sold by Elephant and Monkey for £95, but Fears and Kahn have this (for a somewhat more […]