So here I am submerged in house renovations when there are poster auctions which I need to tell you about. First in the line, mainly because it’s in just a few days time, is the forthcoming Swann Auction of Modernist Posters. Now, with their being in New York, there are usually only one or two [...]
Today’s news is that I did something to something yesterday and discovered a whole new online archive. For a collection that I had no idea even existed in real life. It turns out that the British Council owns a socking great heap of posters. Made up of things like this McKnight Kauffer. And this Purvis. [...]
The combination of house renovation and school holiday means that the blog has been a bit neglected recently. By way of apology, here’s a very lovely bit of Abram Games, very much on an appropriate theme for the holidays. Some closely related posters were on here the other day, but this isn’t it, rather it’s [...]
A recent acquisition on eBay was a few copies of Modern Publicity from the late 1950s and early 1960s. I was going to share their delights with you anyway, but when I looked into the archives I realised that I’ve never actually blogged about this properly at all. Then when I looked a bit harder [...]