Tag Archives: Hans Schleger

Thinking in numbers

By crownfolio | Published: January 9, 2012

For anyone who thought the infographic is a modern phenomenon, the London Transport Museum is here to set you right. They’ve just created a new display of graphics about numbers, which I am mainly drawing your attention to because this Schleger is both fantastic and not often seen. Interestingly, it’s from 1938.  These kind of [...]

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Quite a Lot

By crownfolio | Published: November 18, 2011

Incoming at Crownfolio Towers has been the story this week. Three times in the last couple of weeks a job lot of posters has come up on eBay and, as no one else seemed to want them very much, three times they’ve ended up as ours.  Net result, more posters than one household strictly needs [...]

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What is the range of activity of the commercial artist in Britain?

By crownfolio | Published: September 7, 2011

That’s what this copy of Graphis is asking in 1950. (And yes, the cover is by Tom Eckersley). Unfortunately for us, most of the answers are in black and white, apart from this design for Kia-ora by Lewitt-Him. And this Christmas advertisement for Simpsons of Piccadilly. I think there may have been some more at [...]

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Buy, Buy, Sell, Buy

By crownfolio | Published: May 23, 2011

There are a lot of posters about at the moment; it’s only Monday morning and I’m exhausted just thinking about it.  Not only have there just been the  Christies and Onslows sales, but there’s also quite a bit coming up on eBay too.  I’d like to sum it up in some kind of executive summary [...]

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When did you last see an auction?

By crownfolio | Published: May 11, 2011

So, spring is in the air and the auctions are springing up like dandelions on  the lawn.  Christies is tomorrow, as mentioned before, and in the meantime two more catalogues have popped up on the web, Onslows and Van Sabben, with auctions on the 18th May and 4th June respectively. I’ll start with Onslows first, [...]

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Modern selling

By crownfolio | Published: April 13, 2011

The auction season really is upon us; no sooner do I promise you the Christies highlights, than the Swann Galleries catalogue also pops into my email box.  And to my surprise, the American auction is, I think, the winner.  But let’s take a quick canter through both of them, and then you can make up [...]

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