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a lucky find in a bookshop last week: books! a celebration of the book; a beautiful, typical ‘carnaby street’ style 1960’s production illustrated by artist john alcorn and printed in three dazzling fluorescent colours, so well made that it still looks new…


the eclectic typography and humorous ‘victorian’ style of his work was later adapted to great effect by ‘monty python’ amongst others…


m / 31-07-2012 12:35 - tags: , , ,  

dutch posters #4

following on from my earlier poster posts: hereby the final selection of the archive dutch posters i came across in the ‘tin’ archives two weeks ago… a diverse selection ranging from the 50’s to the 90’s

see these related posts, also here and here

m / 31-07-2012 07:29 - tags: , , ,  

80’s posters

two new posters which i added to my collection this weekend (with thanks to mister ‘gielijn escher’) one of the renowned ‘holland festival’ series by studio dumbar and a classic by artist/designer ‘frits hartingsveldt’

m / 30-07-2012 10:13 - tags: , , ,  

dutch posters #3

following on from my earlier poster posts: hereby another selection of the archive dutch posters i came across in the ‘tin’ archives last week… firstly at the top a wonderful poster from the late 60’s for ‘globe theater’ the designer is uncredited (if anybody knows i would be delighted to hear from you), shown here below a series from old favourite ‘anton beeke’ for various clients dating from the 80’s to recent years..

see also these related posts here and here

m / 26-07-2012 14:12 - tags: , , ,  

child labour

a video for a (rather dull) song made with 100+ school children, 3000+ individual frames and lots of scanning, here (below) is how…

m / 26-07-2012 10:04 - tags: , , ,