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Art for All: British Posters for Transport

Posted on 15th June 2010 | Leave a comment

If the Modern British Posters book and exhibition appealed to you, here's another book focusing on the topic, Art for All: British Posters for Transport.

As the title makes implies, the emphasis here is on posters designed for London Underground and the railways, dating from 1908 when the publicity programme was started by London Underground. Its 208 pages feature many well known poster works, it also examines great examples of the work of McKnight Kauffer in more detail.

Offering a great overview of the topic, the book accompanies an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in America and uses work from their collection, alongside images from the London Transport Museum and National Railway Museum in York.

Buy it for £23.77 from Amazon

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: Apartment in 1930s modernist Taymount Grange block in Forest Hill, London SE23

Posted on 15th June 2010 | Leave a comment

You can grab yourself an apartment in an interesting and lesser-known modernist gem in the capital, specifically a two-bedroom place on the third floor of Taymount Grange, Taymount Rise, London SE23.

Designed by George Bertram Carter as a 'master and servant' dual room set-up and built between 1935 and 1936, Taymount Grange still screams the era in both shape and detail, but it's also a clever design too, with plenty of natural light and fine views over the recently-refurbished communal gardens (which are part of the deal), not to mention over the city itself.

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware, Travel

Chelsea Flower Show collection at London Transport Museum

Posted on 14th June 2010 | Leave a comment

Though it may have finished for another year the Chelsea Flower Show is still blooming as part of a new collection at the London Transport Museum.

The products are based around posters from the show dating from 1938 and 1939 by artists credited as 'T V Y' and 'Klara'. Both are suitably floral designs that have been adapted for a wide range of products, from the place mats pictured to t-shirts to, of course, a travel card holder.

Prices start at £4.95 going up to £24.95 for the place mats.

See the range online

Categories / Cars and Bikes, Film and TV

Starlite Urban Drive-In

Posted on 1st June 2010 | Leave a comment

Always fancied the great American tradition of the drive-in movie but 1) don't live in America 2) don't have a car. Well, the answer to your prayers has arrived with the Starlite Urban Drive-In.

It's launching with two nights in the middle of London, at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane. There are then plans to tour it around the country. One of the best bits for public transport devotees is that the cars are provided. It may not be the Cadillac of your dreams as the event is sponsored by Volvo, but it's a lot less expensive. Roller-skating waitresses selling popcorn are also promised.

The choice of films is a bit disappointing – take your teenage daughter to the Twilight evening on Friday 2 July while Grease is the film of choice on the Saturday.

Booking opens at midday today (Tuesday 1 June) and tickets cost £25. .

Find out more online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Pretty City London travel flask

Posted on 28th May 2010 | Leave a comment

New from Disaster Designs and just in time for a summer of camping and festivals is this Pretty City London travel flask. It's an old fashioned shaped flask decorated with a charming illustration that shows some of London's most famous tourist landmarks.

The Pretty City designs cover a range of products, from wallets to tea towels, so you're sure to find something that suits your needs. Each design plays on nostalgic tourist images of the capital.

The flask, and range, is reasonably priced too at £12.99

Buy it from the cloth-ears website.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Retro London tissue pack

Posted on 24th May 2010 | 1 Comment

Retro design can be found everywhere, including on the humble tissue. This London tissue pack is possibly too good to blow your nose on.

The tissues feature a design of a traditional red London bus in the style of Royston Cooper (also recently referenced in Takashi Furuya's Have a Nice Day Poster). See over the page for the individual tissue design, which features city types waiting at a bus stop, depicted in the same retro style. The illustrations are so charming, they surely deserve a better fate than being thrown away.

A pack of twelve costs 95p.

Buy them from the Dotcomgiftshop

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