{"id":1142,"date":"2009-04-08T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2009-04-08T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:51:48","slug":"ken-garland-galt-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/1142","title":{"rendered":"Ken Garland: Galt Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"565\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Galt Toys\" title=\"Galt Toys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/galt_toys.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking at these images of the first <a title=\"Ken Garland &#038; Associates - Galt Toys catalogue\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kengarland.co.uk\/KGA%20graphic%20design\/galt%20toys\/index.html\">Galt Toys catalogue<\/a>, designed by <a title=\"Ken Garland &#038; Associates\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kengarland.co.uk\">Ken Garland<\/a> back in the 1960&#8217;s, really brings back childhood memories for me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" title=\"Galt Toys\" alt=\"Galt Toys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/galt_toys2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can remember looking longingly through this catalogue as a child and it&#8217;s testament to the power of  simple, iconic design such as this, that it still strikes a chord with me so many years later. It is also possibly in some way responsible for my inclination towards clean, modernist design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at these images of the first Galt Toys catalogue, designed by Ken Garland back in the 1960&#8217;s, really brings back childhood memories for me. I can remember looking longingly through this catalogue as a child and it&#8217;s testament to the power of simple, iconic design such as this, that it still strikes a chord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,25,34,48],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}