Just for you, selfsewn.

Following some kind comments on my previous blogpost, and a request from selfsewn here are the buttons.

And not only the pottery was well designed at Hornsea

As is probably obvious by now, I'm a big fan of Hornsea pottery. Some of the ceramics they produced in the 1960s and 1970s is, in my view, superbly designed.

It's always exciting when I manage to find an item of such well designed pottery - especially if it's within my budget. Finding Hornsea pottery in its original packaging is doubly exciting. For one, you can expect the contents to be in perfect condition - and it usually is. But secondly, because the packaging itself is so well designed.

The examples shown here are from the mid 1960s. The red boxes 1966, the white box 1964 to 1965. The designs are clean and restrained. With a modern sanserif typeface and graphic elements derived from the 'spiral' Hornsea logo used at that time.

I'm affraid I don't know who was responsible for the design of the packaging during this period. If anyone has any idea, I'd love to know.

And what's in the boxes? Well, I'm saving that for a future post.