The L’Affichiste Blog/Blogue de L’Affichiste
Satisfying desire...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Posters have the capacity to inspire (or - on occasion - conspire): they take us to places we want to go; show us products we want to have; introduce us to theater pieces that were the ‘dernier cri’
Sex + Drugs + Rock ‘n Roll...
(well, not exactly...)
Saturday, October 10, 2009
The other day a friend was looking for a poster - something he could put in a home with children. He felt uncomfortable with posters featuring tobacco or alcohol and wondered why L’Affichiste had so
Collecting and Human Nature
Saturday, August 15, 2009
I have often wondered what it was about collecting - posters, or anything else for that matter - that makes it turn from a hobby into a passion, an obsession almost. When I first started noticing
I’m a sucker for a man in uniform...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
I have often fondly called my colleagues in business the ‘poster mafia’: we all basically know each other - if not by sight, then by name - we deal in the same posters, we like the same things, we
OK, OK - I give in: Yes, Facebook & Twitter
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
I have said it one and I will say it again: I would have been very happy living in La Belle Epoque - horse drawn carriages and petticoats, servants, men in top hats, the whole thing. But, for better
