Edward Mcknight Kauffer and Tom Eckersley Two colossus (es)? of 20th Century design , one starting in the teens, the other going into the 80s so 60 years covered. Both exquisite, peaking in 1930s London Underground efforts. I have a fine example of Kauffer’s 1930s output for sale right now
The Shell Advertising Poster 1920–1953 Introduction The first Shell advertising poster was produced in 1920. Posters were displayed on the side of the delivery lorries transporting cans of fuel to customers across the country (see figure 1). These posters became known as Lorry Bills. Lorry Bills are characteristic of Shell’s advertising during the 1920s and …
Just a little note, I blogged about the artist Zero the other week. One of his posters for the Central Line Extension that I featured had beenn selling for around £150 over the last few years, I guess because it was post war and generally pre war make the big bucks ! Anyway a copy …
Continuing with the vibrant auction season, Onslows on Friday also went well. I managed to pick up the John Vickery that I was lusting after a few weeks ago, at a good price too !
One of the joys of this blog is discovering artists that I wasn’t familiar before. As you probably know , I have a taste for the bizarre and Leupin satisfies that : a funny Swiss guy, surely not ! Some biography information Swiss poster and advertising designer Herbert Leupin was born in Beinwil am See. …
Vintage inspired graphics are everywhere these days. Spotted on a recent Christmas shopping trip 1953 by Kerry Lee in case you were wondering, her’s a better view Also does a menu have any right to look this good ? Has anyone else got some cool graphics to share ?
There have been so many auctions recently, literally thousands of posters Van Sabben had a huge array, I have just picked out a couple, one by an artist that I had not heard of before. I would like to find out more about Chagall as a poster artist, he and Picasso are probably the most …
Source: Today in History: David Klein died in 2005
I didn’t realise when I featured them previously that there were more stamps issued by the Royal Mail : in fact quite a few more Some familiar names and some not so, of course the Games tiger featured recently is in there
The answer to my last post was Zero : Hans Schleger who was responsible for some of the most effective British posters of the mid 20th Century Hans Schleger was a pioneering graphic designer, whose influential work developed the idea of corporate identity. He began his career in Berlin, as a publicity and …
