Tag Archives: James Fitton

RIP COI

By crownfolio | Published: June 29, 2011

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. [...]

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life : henrion : rabbit

By crownfolio | Published: April 6, 2011

I called up this book out of our library’s reserve stores the other day (you can easily enough find it on Amazon if your library isn’t so obliging). It’s from 1972, so I wasn’t hoping for too much from it, but actually I was surprised.  There’s a short introductory essay, but then the bulk of [...]

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Further training

By crownfolio | Published: November 26, 2010

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 [...]

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Turning over several new leaves

By crownfolio | Published: April 7, 2010

I’ve always liked James Fitton.  And I can say that with some confidence, as I had this postcard on my wall at university (quite some time ago now).  It’s one of his designs for the Ministry of Food, from just after the end of the war. I’ve still got the postcard; more pleasingly, we also [...]

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Shine a light

By crownfolio | Published: March 29, 2010

This was sold on eBay on Friday. From 1944, it is a lovely piece of Hans Schleger/Zero in prime linen-mounted condition.  Mr Crownfolio and I did have rather deluded hopes of picking it up for a pittance, seeing as it was being sold in the States.  But it went for nearly £250 – unsurprisingly – [...]

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Britain Can Make Lovely Posters

By crownfolio | Published: February 23, 2010

A further digression here.  I’ve spent the morning assembling the first draft of the links page, and in the course of it have rediscovered this wonderful photograph: It’s the General Printing part of the 1947 Britain Can Make It exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The aim was to showcase the consumer goods which would [...]

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