Best of British

Spotted in a shop window in Hampstead, London. I believe it's by the excellent Satoshi Hashimoto, but if you know otherwise, please let me know.

Vintage at Goodwood

Spotted these nice flyposters the other day. Apparently the design is by Red Or Dead, usually better known for their fashion work. It reminds me a little of Barnbrook's excellent new work for the Sydney Bienniale, which you can see here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/may/17th-biennale-of-sydney-identity

Cuban posters

This selection is from an early seventies Dover editions book of Cuban posters. Many of the stylistic motifs which became associated with Communist posters, such as the high contrast imagery and bold block headline fonts, were as much defined by the basic screen-printing equipment as by any particular aesthetic. Nevertheless the artists who produced these posters overcame their constraints to produce work which is influential to this day. I love the confident mark-making in these posters, and often go back to this book for inspiration.

Czech & Polish posters

I've just come back from Eastern Europe, where I came across this man's shop in Prague. It was tempting to buy the whole shop, but I made do with a handful of posters. The tall green screenprint is for a Czech film from 1948, and was apparently the last to be made in that format before the Communists standardised poster sizes. From the bold simplicity I thought it was from the '60s at first, and was amazed to discover how old it really was.

The four smaller ones are a mixture of Czech and Polish film posters, and finally the large one is from another poster shop, this time in Krakow. It's for a '70s literary festival, and the quality of the screened overprint is best appreciated close up.

I also bought some fantastic stuff from a market in Krakow, of which more when I get around to scanning it.