Still on the lino-cut tourist poster focus, I thought I’d bring up London-based artist Paul Cattherall. I first came by Catherall’s work when I was bought a copy of the Cloudspotter’s guide for which he designed the cover, but every now and again a TFL commision has popped up, which I have suspected as being [...]

In collaboration with Design Week, the London Transport Museum and TFL ran a competition a few weeks ago called the ‘Outer Limits’ to design a poster that encouraged Londoners (and visitors alike) to fan outwards from Zone 1 and explore the further reaches of London. I entered the competition being a huge fan of the [...]

I’ve seen a lot of Josh Brill’s work over the last few days and I haven’t really been trying either. His ‘Flora Fauna’ series popped on Grainedit recently and I couldn’t resist putting a post up on the series as I think it’s rather special. This is great Charley Harper style stuff and what I [...]

I bought this little publicity booklet a while back at a book fair. It’s in fairly good nick considering it was produced in 1960 and sent half-way round the world. Then again, (like some much other business mail) it could have been put ‘on to one side’ and been forgotten about rather conveniently. I would [...]

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I recently watched it again and thought it was worth a revisit. Not content with producing lavish blockbuster rehashes of fairy tales and building fibre-glass pink castles in California; Disney commissioned animator and director Ward Kimball to produce a cartoon called ‘Magic Highway USA‘ as [...]

As a hopeless nostalgic, I have found no other website more capable of filling the gaps in my vintage memoirs than TV Ark. I’ve made references to this site in a previous post where I found some rare content on the BBC Schools program, Watch. But by Jove! There is so much more to be [...]

Fellow Yorkshireman and hard-grafter, Thomas Fentiman started botanically brewing delicious soft-drinks around 1905. He started with a ginger beer and didn’t stop until athe mid 1960′s when the explosion of supermarkets forced his door-to-door fizzy pop selling business to reluctantly close down. But as luck would have it, his grandson started the business up again [...]

Firstly, apologies for my sporadic posting recently. The server, which powers my blog has been rather poorly. I shall endeavour against the driving rain and do my best until I can get it sorted. Anyway… September is a very special month. In fact, it is my favourite month. The shadows grow longer in those golden [...]