Looking out to sea
Don’t get me started on modern magazine cover design. Instead let’s hark back to the days of 1937 old, when,...
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Hey Hay
I first came across the brand HAY in Copenhagen where they have a shop and a lot of presence across...
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A tonic for business
Commercial Art was an advertising-centric magazine produced by The Studio Ltd, 44 Leicester Square, London. Both names pop up whenever...
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Nature Study
It is nearly the end of the summer term. Shelf Appeal has been out of education for quite a while...
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One cute little pooch
Shelf Appeal is somewhat always about the real thing. The mass produced real thing perhaps. But searching out something touched...
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Kayser boys
The marketing of women’s stockings has taken interesting turns and twists (or runs and ladders) over the years. The sexual...
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Ms Jones
If Shelf Appeal were going to sit down for an illustrator’s tea party, as well as Mr Bawden and Mr...
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Jane
Jane goes to the Wars – as told on her typewriter, with sketches by a comrade in the A.T.S. is...
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Burberry weather
Liverpool in 1955 was doubtless (in terms of weather) as Liverpool in 2013. Ergo, if you were living there then...
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Zigzag
On first glance this is a jolly nice deco-ish story book cover. On second glance this is a piece of...
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Top cat
Shelf Appeal is not just about the appeal of old things. Walking down Oxford Street the other day (or doing...
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Unpacking Pollini
Shelf Appeal does different things with her working day. Some digital work, some writing, some curating, some things other. During...
