This lad was another classic poster/print designer from the glorious British transport posters designer stockpile. Eckersley was born in Lancashire in 1914. After attending Salford art school in 1930 he moved to London to seek his calling by designing freelance posters with another chap called Eric Lombers. Their progress was halted by the war and [...]

I came across the Delicious Design League via GrainEdit after a rather boisterous afternoon at work. One of those days when for all the best intentions, you can’t seem to do anything of note other than look at things on the internet with a measured sense of envy and excitement. These guys are based in [...]

I sometimes daydream about the golden days of travel… Sat listening to jazz in the oak-panelled cocktail lounge of a rumbling airship over the Atlantic… Or maybe even smoking on the top deck of a great ocean-liner whilst a chap in a fez shines my shoes before dinner. People don’t have the same expectations as [...]

Imagine being called George Heywood Maunoir Sumner… Well, George Heywood Maunoir Sumner was indeed called just that, although most people knew him simply as Heywood Sumner. Either way, this chap was in my opinion one of the great English illustrators from the early twentieth century. He was heavily involved with the Arts & Craft movement [...]

I’ve never been to Walt Disney World in Orlanda, Florida, but I’ve had enough waking nightmares about it to enable me to profess a certain level of commentary on the place. Avoiding my typical British cynicism is rather difficult when it comes to these types of grandiose commercial ventures, but in this instance I must [...]

The Citroën 2CV or deux chevaux vapeur, (two steam horses) was my very first car. My family always seemed to have Citroëns of different varities throughout my childhood and I quickly fell in love with the typical French personality, style, ubiquitous charm and downright stubbornness of a Citroën. There was no greater example of this [...]

I don’t know much about Keith Thompson, only that his work scares the hell out of me. From what I can gather, this chap makes illustrations and concept art for books, films and computer games. He was also a featured artist in the Spectrum Art Exhibition held in the Museum of American illustration, New York. [...]

Shepard Fairey is an American graphic designer/illustrator who has received a decent level of press in the last few years for his trademark print work – including the famous Obama ‘Hope’ poster. I’m particularly fond of his album cover designs (especially Led Zepplin’s ‘Mothership’) and also the cheeky political iconography that he incorporates into his [...]