Shell Is Always First Size-L depicts a football game

depicts a football game

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon

Original linen backed Ordnance Survey map of England South (Sheet 11)

The design by Richard Bird and Michael Mayhew was adapted from an illuminated medieval manuscript and shows a fox with sharp teeth and snaking red tongue

The gig was eventually rescheduled again and postponed until June 1999 – purportedly for ‘tax reasons’

Shell Is Always First Size-L depicts a football gameOriginal, antique, poster: Shell Is Always First, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1935. Probably the greatest poster designer working in interwar Britain, Kauffer produced several outstanding designs for Shell Oil in the 1930s. The posters were displayed on the side of Shell lorries as part of a highly regarded publicity campaign. This copy belonged to the leading post war graphic designer Abram Games (more information here). A higher resolution