{"id":12623,"date":"2012-11-19T02:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2012-11-19T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:27:47","slug":"milbury-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/19\/milbury-souvenirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Milbury souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/milbury.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/milbury.jpg\" alt=\"milbury.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little something I ran up this weekend inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/14\/children-of-the-stones\/\">a certain TV serial<\/a> which has been the subject of discussion recently. This is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/milburystones\" target=\"_blank\">a new design at CafePress<\/a>. The idea was to do a travel poster in the style of those produced by London Transport in the 1920s promoting their destinations outside the city.\u00a0I&#8217;ve always liked the colours and bold design of those prints so this piece is based on posters by artist Noel Rooke (1881\u20131953).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rooke.jpg\" alt=\"rooke.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Betchworth by Noel Rooke.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>The picture of the stones was adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2008_12_29_avebury_0059.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">a photo by Jim Champion<\/a> which is made available under the Creative Commons licence. I took the liberty of enlarging the stone on the left to give it more presence. I couldn&#8217;t find a font that was a good match for Noel Rooke&#8217;s pen lettering so I scanned an alphabet from a lettering book my mother used to use when she was at art school (thanks, Mum!). The snake design is based on a postcard seen in the TV serial; nothing else looked as effective, and the combination of the snake with the slogan adds the requisite sinister touch.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/16\/a-journey-to-avebury-by-derek-jarman\/\">A Journey to Avebury by Derek Jarman<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/14\/children-of-the-stones\/\">Children of the Stones<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/23\/avebury-panoramas\/\">Avebury panoramas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little something I ran up this weekend inspired by a certain TV serial which has been the subject of discussion recently. This is now a new design at CafePress. The idea was to do a travel poster in the style of those produced by London Transport in the 1920s promoting their destinations outside the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/19\/milbury-souvenirs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Milbury souvenirs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19,23],"tags":[8450,4223,4289,269],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-television","category-work","tag-avebury","tag-children-of-the-stones","tag-noel-rooke","tag-panoramas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3hB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}