secret garden, playfair octagon, sheep head and skittles... Love Hearts type in graveyard
duddingston village, edinburgh | july 2009




couple of 70s booklets with lovely paper stock | july 2009




late 60s poster guide to iona beautifully illustrated by arthur r griffith - outer spread | july 2009




North British Hotel (Balmoral) brochure from 1993. JK rowling would have passed every day up to the elephant cafe without an inkling she'd write inside one day... | july 2009




delightful book on sketching sea and coastline by prolific amateur artist and author L. A. Doust | july 2009




early 70s Ladybirds : illusts by john kenney (dickens) and john berry (london) | july 2009




part of the evelyn hofer / v. s. pritchett series on 60s cities : an evocatively photographed and brilliantly written book on war-battered London - Holmes, Dickens and Chaplin would have recognised the images, but most locations today have changed irrevocably under post-docklands re-development - even The Sweeney is post-this, east-end wise. | july 2009

link to one of my longstanding favourite London photographers and a close friend of Barney Bubbles, who got me into graphic design in the first place with his work for Ian Dury, musician - Dury was also a very talented illustrator as featured in creative review july 2009 with the London Life Monograph

www.briangriffin.co.uk
Mr Griffin is up there with Minor White and Raymond Moore and Adam Curtis.

and a local 2012 contemporary genius -
http://www.stephengill.co.uk