I have been pointed into the direction of Ghostbox recently by a number of people and when I finally managed to get round to visiting their site and checking out their artists, I was was ultra-frustrated that I hadn’t come across them sooner. The label was created back in 2003 and is now host to [...]

Here in the UK, our age-old romantic attachment to good motoring has been shouldered by the crutch of Hayne’s Workshop Manuals. This institution of DIY car maintenance has covered everything from the lowly Ford Escort MK1 to the Sopwith Camel bi-plane since it began publishing in 1960 – Just in time for the explosion of [...]

MB or Milton Bradley was (alongside Waddingtons) the ‘numero uno’ in board game manufacturers in the UK. Back in the 1980′s, when it was reasonable for a child to hastily scrawl the words ‘Buckaroo’ or ‘Twister’ onto a draft Christmas list, MB was in the driving seat when it came to toys. First established back [...]

Happy birthday to it, happy birthday to it, happy birthday dear Colourshcool, Happy birthday to it! Colourschool is officially one year old today. Thanks to everyone who has been regularly checking in and to those who have only just arrived for the first… Where have you been for the last year!? I thought I would [...]

Finding a nugget of information about The Komboh Bureau of Visual Investigation is tough work. The blog is so minimal that it looks as though a soviet-block printing shop has made it. From what I can gather, it was launched in June this year and although there isn’t much work on there yet, I have [...]

Perhaps, if I was dusting the frost from my Ushanka as I boarded the train from Kiev to Moscow on a frozen evening, I might just have a set of playing cards in my coat pocket for the journey. They might even be as lavishly illustrated and delicately detailed as this set of folky playing [...]

Another Ladybird book here. I realise I seem to be posting rather a lot of these lately, but they have become a bit of a healthy obsession with me and… Well… They are pretty special aren’t they? This particular one won’t be a let down to any enthusiasts out there. It appears to have been [...]

I’ve been thinking about Science Fiction art a lot recently and it has seemed to me that it’s been manifesting itself on websites and in books a lot more than usual over the last week. Maybe I’m just sub-consciously looking for it. Either way, I love that hand drawn/painted cover work from the tacky (and [...]