FREE LUNCH? NO BUT FREE EXHIBITION ABOUT ADVERTISING. Where? National Library of Australia, Canberra. When? 23 November 2016 to 25 April 2017, 10am-5pm. Step back in time, into the ads of … [Read more...]
ADVERTISING – Art Deco style
On 25 August, 8pm, join Art Deco & Modernism Society President Robin Grow in a dazzling trip through advertising from the Deco era. See how colour, typography, poster design, magazines, building … [Read more...]
Ice cream
SPRING, SUMMER, ICE CREAM TIME. Here is a selection of advertising and wrappers. … [Read more...]
Advertising from the air – it’s logical
HERE IS A LOVELY ADVERTISING IDEA FROM 1937. The Australian Aviation Schools (Victorian Branch) had a lovely idea about how to advertise services in Melbourne. The aviation school, and its parent … [Read more...]
From your friends in Canberra – blotters
WE HAVE LOOKED AT SOME COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING BLOTTERS. HERE ARE A SELECTION, AGAIN FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANDREW H., which show a style of communication that we may associate more with the early 21st … [Read more...]
Swann sale of advertising, children’s books etc 22 January 2015
22/1/2015- HERE IS A NICE ONLINE 3D CATALOGUE TO VIEW - I would love to go to a Swann auction one day - this catalogue is a pretty good substitute. On offer are: advertising; children's … [Read more...]
Monash Rare Books’ Librarian – over and out
OVERALL HE HAS BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS AND LEFT A GREAT LEGACY. Richard Overell, the Monash University Library Rare Books' Librarian, has retired; giving up a dream job of adding books and other … [Read more...]
Blotters
WHAT IS THE CORRECT TERM FOR THIS LARGELY OBSOLETE ITEM - BLOTTING PAPER OR BLOTTERS? This type of ephemera presents a wonderful surface for advertising. We pick up some of the themes from the … [Read more...]
New book about war time advertising
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK OF INTEREST TO EPHEMERISTS. The Huns have got my gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War, the authors, Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy, advise … [Read more...]