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A mid-1930s biscuit tin that taps in to the contemporary 'vibe' for the healthy outdoor life of hiking and rambling. Mitchelhill's bakery in Edinburgh was a curiously Thirties style construction, just off Craigmillar Rd, that seemed to suit this 'healthy' confection - and their Abernethy biscuits were tasty I recall!
I think in later years they were possibly part of the Scribbans-Kemp empire and that latterly the brand was perhaps acquired by Simmer's and latterly Nairn's.
This advert appears in the May - June 1953 issue of the excellent Sales Appeal trade journal. The magazine dealt with matters relating to packaging, display, marketing and industrial design.
It is one of a series issued by Fisher's Foils Ltd and consists of two pages - this front sheet die-cut to allow a view of the second, backing sheet that is a sheet of decorative foil. The company were based on the site of the old 1924/25 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley whose grounds, and many exhibition buildings, became an industrial estate until modern redevelopment swept them away.
Fisher's was founded in 1929 and were a major concern. In 1964 they were acquired by one of the aluminium industry giants Alcan.
Many food and product manufacturers issued numerous such books giving details of recipes that could be made using their products - such booklets being either given away at fairs, fetes and the such or acquired by return post or collection of points or coupons. This was issued by Nestlé's Milk Products Ltd of London and is selling their tinned "Ideal Milk" - an unsweetened evapoated milk as seen in the tin on the back cover. Such products were popular particularly in the days before widespread adoption of domestic refrigeration.
The booklet is undated and, sadly, the cover is not credited. It has a design feel of the 1950s almost but I have seen this dated to 1932 in which case it is very 'modern' for the day - more late-30s in feel. However, the editor was Dorothy Daisy Cottington-Taylor, who was Director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and who died in 1944 so a '30s date is more than likely. Her portrait photo survives in the National Portrait Gallery and she wrote or complied many such booklets and advertising items.
A charming little colour booklet issued by the famous jam, jelly and fruit canners of Chivers from their Orchard Factory at Histon, near Cambridge. The booklet contains details of the company, the products and recipes that they can be used in. Many of the plates are reproductions of colour advertisments commissioned over the years by Chivers, several from well known artists and illustrators.
These pages show an advert for the company's table fruit jellies - packaged jelly 'lumps' made with gelatine and fruit juices - and the flavours available; lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry, pineapple, greengage, vanilla, cherry, blackcurrant, lime and tangerine.
One for the cloacopapyrologists here. "This paper is guaranteed to be Perfectly Pure and Free from all injurious ingredients". Well you can never to be too sure. An almost full packet of the infamous Bronco hard toiler tissue paper as recommended for Water-Closet use and made by the British Patent Perforated Paper Company, based in east London. Bronco, along with Izal, was probably one fo the market leaders in the sales of such sheets of toilet paper rather than the roll of perforated sheets that, as the company name suggests, they also manufactured. The manufacturing of the 'hard paper' version, so detested by so many 'users', was discontinued in 1990. The packaging uses a marvellously old fashioned design with that sort of tartan titling. I haven't counted the remaining sheets but it does look to be 'untouched by human hand'.
Over the years London Transport turned its hands to the manufacturing of many things - some more obvious such as bus stop posts, some less known such as aircraft and components during WW2. However, for many years, the undertaking ran its own extensive Catering services and this included not only staff canteens and the training school that backed the staff therebut also the preperation of foodstuffs.
These took the form of many prepared foods - such as bakery products - that were delivered across the whole LT area on a daily basis from the Food Preperation Centre at Croydon, south London, but also certain raw materials. These included butchery products and items such as these - LT sausages. As may be gathered the fact that these were also available direct to staff for purchase as part of 'home deliveries' and such products also included LT tea and coffee as well as seasonal hampers that included the famous LT Christmas Pudding. This is for the "Farmhouse" sausage made with beef and 'other' meats.
The Centre was closed as part of the contraction of LT in the '70s and '80s. For many years it used, as a logo or brand, the heraldic 'griffin' that London Transport had adopted upon its formation as the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.
The well known confectioners Clarnico were based in east London and famous for mint creams and confectionery such as these Fruit Jellies. Clarnico stood for Clarke, Nichol and Coombes who from 1879 were based in Hackney Wick until this year when they moved to new works a little further east in 1955. They were acquired by the other east London mint makers Trebor and so merged into Cadburys who keep the brand name.
As a school student I wrote to Clarnico who were kind enough to send me a selction fo their publicity and display material; this 18" high cardboard die-cut showcard is so designed as to move the box forward of the main background, giving a 'three-D' effect. The price, 17p a box, also helps date this!
An interesting advert showing the range of brands available via the UK subsidiary of the vast Nestlé company. At the time they were probably best known in the UK for their ranges of milk and cream products including Nestlé's condensed milk, Ideal evaporated milk and sterilised cream - a small tin that for some reason in our Lancastrian household was known as 'blobby cream'!
Also shown are Nestlé's chocolate, that was not as common as market leaders Cadbury's but that I associate with vending machines, and two 'instant' beverages, Ricory and Milo. The former appears to have been part of the then relatively popular chicory and coffee mixtures. The striking omission here is the company's really well-known brand of Nescafé. Also depicted are the range of homogenised baby foods.
A lavish colour advert that appears in the special Christmas issue of Sport and Country Magazine that went under the name of "Holly Leaves". I can discover very little about Crosbie's Pure Food Co Ltd who appeared to be active in the mid-Twentieth century and whose "Nell Gwyn" marmalade was one of their most advertised products. As can be seen from the advert the company, who appear to have been based in the Grimsby and Bradley areas of Lincolnshire as well as having works in Southall, Middlesex, Whitchurch in Hampshire and in Law, Lanarkshire, manufactured a range of preserves, sauces and associated food products.
Yardley's are a long-established British perfumier - once based in Stratford, East London and famous for Lavender products, they moved out of town many years ago and now, I think, survive only as a brand. This 'Freesia" box still has its contents, a bottle of cologne, and brings back for me the oddest memories - my late grandmother, who died in 1970, used Freesia and the scent reminds me so much of her.
I quite like the strangely colourful abstract pattern.
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Well, here is another composite. The Iceland background was shot by my super awesome wife Sandy with her Canon. I added in the photo of Marcie which I shot with my Kodak (the background layer keeps the EXIF info). Anyhow, the farm pictured is Þorvaldseyri, which is likely the most recognized farm in Iceland following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. The farm was looking great on this day... and of course, Marcie was as well. I'll fix up the harsh edges before this goes off to print.
From the marvellous German publication Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, a long running trade journal looking at book design and commercial art, comes this advertising insert from 1925. It is for the Leipzig printing concern of Berger & Wirth who also had brancesh in Berlin, Barmen, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Budapest. Specialising in offset printing the advert shows the wonderful array of packaging and labelling they produced for the 'Hansi" brand of pralines and chocolates.
Hansi, with the once familiar 'Hansi" mascot, his rucksack and five bars of chocolate seen at the top of the advert, was manufactured by the Rüger company, founded in 1858 by Otto Rüger and based at Lockwitzgrund near Dresden until the company appears to have closed in 1932. The advert itself is wonderfully brilliant with a depth and lustre to the printing that scanning does not wholly pick up.
This catalogue for 1929 showing box tops for chocolates and biscuits was issued by the Leeds colour printers George H Harrison & Sons of the Statue Printing Works. It was issued in two formats, for large and small cartons, and contains numerous stock designs that could be overprinted with a brand and retailers name. The colourways and designs are very 1920s 'chocolate box' in style with little of contemporary graphic design! They show very traditional scenes, Christmas and such, as well as charming 1920s 'flappers' along with a smattering of historical and 'Far Eastern" promise and delights! The prices ranged from 55/- per thousand for designs in Section C, through 65/- in Section B and Section A's designs coming in at 75/-.
This shows a lid and front panel design overprinted, as an example, as "Gaiety Chocolates" to show what could be provided at additional cost. The scene is rather 'Arabian Nights".
A jolly little charity shop find - and an easily attached, rustproof brassiere repair outfit that came under the name that was the mark of value - Winfield. Winfield was for many years the own brand labrl of that once bastion of UK High Streets F W Woolworth and indeed, the W stood for Winfield. This little packet, in cellophane wrapping, enabled repairs to be made to the bra but hopefully it wasn't like a bike tube repair kit, to be carried with you in case of the need of a running repair.
From a 1930s printers almanac showing examples of colour separation and printing as being used for high quality advertising. This quite lucious illustration is intended to seel the multi-coloured woollen yarns available fromt he famous Bardford concern of Lister's. Lister's originated in silk production but diversified into other fibres especially the locally important wool industry and became known for fine velvets as well as heavier moquettes. The paper label design is lovely with the very '30s image of the modern lady golfer!
Business card for psychologist. It has two parts, inside and outside. Here is the front of the inside part.
Rod Hunt recently worked with Hornall Anderson Design in Seattle to illustrate the Brain Cruncher game to appear on the back of Quaker Life Cereal packaging. Five different versions of the illustration were created for the Original, Cinnamon, Strawberry, Apple Cinnamon & Maple Brown Sugar flavours.
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A fine showing of the many special boxes and types of shortbread W Crawford's produced for the Christmas market in 1926. This was only part of a vast range - and the catalogie quotes prices for boxes as well as retail 'drums' from which grocers would have sold loose quantities of biscuits as was often the case at this time.
From a 1930s printers almanac showing examples of colour separation and printing as being used for high quality advertising. This image demonstrated the Vivex Clour Process system as produced via three-colour blocks by Gee & Watson.
The selection still looks delicious! Macfarlane, Lang were origianlly a Glasgow company who had built a large bakery in the est of the city, the Victoria Biscuit Works, and had also expanded as a national brand and opened an additional works in Osterley, west London.
An advert for the famous brand of belnded whisky, VAT 69, produced by William Sanderson's of Leith in Edinburgh. The belnd was introduced in 1882 and for many years it was sold in this iconic bulbous bottle. The advert appears in a 1930 advertising manual and was the work of the agency T B Browne who had the Sanderson account at the time. In a way it feels curiously "English" but I suspect that was the market it was aimed at.
Client: Specacular Aquariums
Brief: To design a leaflet to promote aquatics solutions exhibition
Year: 2004
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This catalogue for 1929 showing box tops for chocolates and biscuits was issued by the Leeds colour printers George H Harrison & Sons of the Statue Printing Works. It was issued in two formats, for large and small cartons, and contains numerous stock designs that could be overprinted with a brand and retailers name. The colourways and designs are very 1920s 'chocolate box' in style with little of contemporary graphic design! They show very traditional scenes, Christmas and such, as well as charming 1920s 'flappers' along with a smattering of historical and 'Far Eastern" promise and delights! The prices ranged from 55/- per thousand for designs in Section C, through 65/- in Section B and Section A's designs coming in at 75/-.
The title page is rather old-fashioned in style even for 1929 but is designed to show the technical skill of the company. The Statue Printing Works was situated on Lovett Road, Leeds.
Client: Kultbox Records
Firm: Kent Henderson Design
Role: Creative Direction + Design
Recognition: Communication Arts Design Annual, Print's Regional Design Annual
12" record sleeve for Chicago electronic music group. Muted color, gritty photos, and simple typography were used to graphically emulate the band's thick, static-filled sound.
William Crawford & Sons were a well-known biscuit manufacturer's and national brand who in 1856 had acquired a bakery in Leith; the 1813 establishment date they always quoted refers to the original opening of a bakers of ships biscuits that formed the original concern. The company grew and when their new and highly mechanised plant in Liverpool opened in 1897 they were amongst the biggest biscuit makers in the UK. They would, in 1960, be acquired by United Biscuits and the brand is still available.
These pages form the Crawford's 1932 catalogue that forms part of a fine fold out desk calendar and desk blotter that the company issued on an annual basis during the inter-war years. The left hand fold contains a well printed colour catalogue showing 28 pages of their biscuit range both pre-packed and loose for sale by weight. Few prices are shown here, apart from the one penny or twopenny biscuit ranges, as the price list would at the time be issued as a seperate publication to allow for price changes. There are a vast range of plain, fancy and chocolate biscuits along with shortbread and savoury biscuits along with ice cream wafers. Many were available 'loose' but tins and packaged assortments and selections were also available; the latter were often sold 'over the counter' as individual penny packets whilst the former were often sold as gifts or presents.
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Anoushka Shankar is a sitar player and composer in indian classical music. She is the daughter of legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar. My concept based on this project was to bring Indian traditional architecture and vedic scripts, dated back from 5th century BC, into the forefront of the design. The diversity of Indian culture is represented through its architecture. In each panel I wanted to convey a unique indian architectural pattern that expresses a form of melody and rhythm which are the principals of indian classical music
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