Tag Archives: Pieter Huveneers

Door 3

By crownfolio | Published: December 3, 2010

Another miniature today, but this time it’s singing postboxes.  Obviously. They’re the work of Pieter Huveneers in 1957.  They also exist in portrait format (below) but I think I prefer these ones.  Does anyone know where these small format posters were displayed? Maybe four is a jollier number for carol singers. (Apologies for the quality [...]

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The return of Mr Huveneers

By crownfolio | Published: July 1, 2010

Mike Ashworth, whose Flickr stream brought us the wonderful lost posters of Notting Hill Gate, is clearly a man with much design ephemera to his name.  He very kindly sent me a link to this – a wonderful brochure cover by Pieter Huveneers from 1956. Now I blogged about Pieter Huveneers a while back, trying [...]

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Operator, I can’t find anything

By crownfolio | Published: March 26, 2010

I’ve been meaning for a while to do a series of posts looking at the different archives that sit out there on the web, just waiting for you to rummage through their files of wonderful vintage posters.  These resources have exploded in the last few years, and it’s now easy to find out incredible amounts [...]

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Mr Huveneers, I presume

By crownfolio | Published: March 10, 2010

Unless you have studied GPO posters with a rather unnatural intensity, you probably wouldn’t know the name of Peter (or possibly Pieter) Huveneers.  But it’s worth making his acquaintance.  He designed a whole series of delightful posters for the Post Office throughout most of the 1950s. The BPMA have about 20 of his designs catalogued, [...]

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