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29-10-2018, 08:23
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The set of Guinness papers we’ve been sorting through for their owner includes a fairly complete two-decade run of Guinness Time, the in-house magazine for the brewery at Park Royal.While the contents is on the whole fairly dull (egg and spoon races, meet the toilet attendants, and so on) the covers are works of art, redolent of the periods in which they were produced.
Those presented below are all from the 1950s and so there are a couple of references to TV, the hot trend of the day.
https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_summer_1956.jpgSummer 1956. Illustrator: Tom Eckersley (https://fishinkblog.com/2013/11/07/tom-eckersley-the-father-of-all-poster-illustrators/).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1956.jpgAutumn 1956. Illustrator: John Gilroy (https://www.guinness.com/en-ie/advertising/gilroy/).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1956.jpgChristmas 1956. Illustrator uncredited but it feels as if we ought to recognise the style.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_spring_1957.jpgSpring 1957. Illustrator: Raymond Tooby.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1957.jpgAutumn 1957. Illustrator: Abram Games (https://www.abramgames.com/about).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1957.jpgChristmas 1957. Illustrator: John Gilroy.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1958.jpgAutumn 1958. Illustrator: ‘Smilby’ (Francis Wilford-Smith) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wilford-Smith).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1958.jpgChristmas 1958. Illustrator: ‘E‘ — Eckersley again?https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_spring_1959.jpgSpring 1959. Illustrator: Smilby.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_summer_1959.jpgSummer 1959. Illustrator: B. Willison. (Anyone?)https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1959.jpgAutumn 1959. Illustrator: Harry Stevens (http://vintageposterblog.com/2012/01/25/the-forgotten-man/#.W9a50Uv7TyQ), we think.GALLERY: Guinness Time in the 1950s – design of the times (https://boakandbailey.com/2018/10/gallery-guinness-time-in-the-1950s-design-of-the-times/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
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The set of Guinness papers we’ve been sorting through for their owner includes a fairly complete two-decade run of Guinness Time, the in-house magazine for the brewery at Park Royal.While the contents is on the whole fairly dull (egg and spoon races, meet the toilet attendants, and so on) the covers are works of art, redolent of the periods in which they were produced.
Those presented below are all from the 1950s and so there are a couple of references to TV, the hot trend of the day.
https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_summer_1956.jpgSummer 1956. Illustrator: Tom Eckersley (https://fishinkblog.com/2013/11/07/tom-eckersley-the-father-of-all-poster-illustrators/).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1956.jpgAutumn 1956. Illustrator: John Gilroy (https://www.guinness.com/en-ie/advertising/gilroy/).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1956.jpgChristmas 1956. Illustrator uncredited but it feels as if we ought to recognise the style.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_spring_1957.jpgSpring 1957. Illustrator: Raymond Tooby.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1957.jpgAutumn 1957. Illustrator: Abram Games (https://www.abramgames.com/about).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1957.jpgChristmas 1957. Illustrator: John Gilroy.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1958.jpgAutumn 1958. Illustrator: ‘Smilby’ (Francis Wilford-Smith) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wilford-Smith).https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_christmas_1958.jpgChristmas 1958. Illustrator: ‘E‘ — Eckersley again?https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_spring_1959.jpgSpring 1959. Illustrator: Smilby.https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_summer_1959.jpgSummer 1959. Illustrator: B. Willison. (Anyone?)https://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/guinness_time_autumn_1959.jpgAutumn 1959. Illustrator: Harry Stevens (http://vintageposterblog.com/2012/01/25/the-forgotten-man/#.W9a50Uv7TyQ), we think.GALLERY: Guinness Time in the 1950s – design of the times (https://boakandbailey.com/2018/10/gallery-guinness-time-in-the-1950s-design-of-the-times/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
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