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From 1947, when coal was good for you.

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Apartment history by wallpaper at the Janis Rozentāls Museum, Riga.

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Three pleasing plates from Romans Suta (1896-1944) on show at the Riga Museum of Decorative Arts & Design.

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Before today I had neither heard of, nor ever knowingly seen any work by, the artist Stasys Ušinskas (1905-1974), but that changed with a visit to the Vilnius Museum of Applied Arts & Design, currently showcasing the extraordinary breadth of his talent. Here, some paintings from the 1930s - A Human Between The Saws; Farmers At The Market Place; and Bathing Women - but there is much more to explore.

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Ernst Haas, London 1953

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Modern illustration in the grand tradition of Italian design: artwork for a poster reflecting 'Coffee The Italian Way', produced by illustrator Daniele Simonelli.

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John A Brubaker’s poster for Book Week, 1925. I agree.

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Ocean Limited, 1962, by Alex Colville, seen at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.

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Lobster pots in Sandford, Nova Scotia.

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Photo by Lusher

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Arresting graphic treatment for the 1931 film City Streets, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney.

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Photographer Lasse Erkola

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Alas, just a day left to visit this excellent, if small, exhibition at Create Streets in Lambeth. Several excellent early 1960s works by Eric Hudson, among the two dozen or so works on display.

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The appealing combination of modernist architecture and biscuits, on display at the German Packaging Museum, Heidelberg.

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I’ll have what he’s having. Barman Bitter packaging from the 1920s, as on display at the German Packaging Museum in Heidelberg.

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What we want, I hear you say, is some photos of hand painted hairdressers’ signs from Togo. You do? Well here are some I found in a folk art museum in Heidelberg.

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Two ghostsigns from Heidelberg in Germany. Above, venerable stationer Karl Küstner is pretending to be the Istanbul kebab house, and below the frontage of the daily newspaper, the Heidelberger Tagesblatt, which shut up shop in 1982.