The L’Affichiste Blog/Blogue de L’Affichiste

Satisfying desire...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:19:38 -0400

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’ a

Sex + Drugs + Rock ‘n Roll... (well, not exactly...)

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:20:10 -0400

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 m

Collecting and Human Nature

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:54:20 -0400

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 pos

I’m a sucker for a man in uniform...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:52:21 -0400

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 kno

OK, OK - I give in: Yes, Facebook & Twitter

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:58:01 -0400

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 o