{"id":2610,"date":"2015-02-02T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2015-02-02T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:26:01","slug":"spotlight-on-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/02\/02\/spotlight-on-series\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spotlight On &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LanguageSeries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LanguageSeries.jpg\" alt=\"LanguageSeries\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LanguageSeries.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LanguageSeries-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>In 1981 PAN decided to bring out a series of four books titled &#8216;Spotlight On &#8230;.&#8221; French, German, Italian and Spanish. The format was that they contained clippings from advertisements, newspapers, cartoons, instruction manuals, books etc. all in the language of that particular title. What makes them a little different was that, although using the same format of <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0representative <\/span>everyday items of that country on a coffee table,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> all the covers<\/span> are by different artists. The Creative Director at the time was Gary Day-Ellison and he contacted four graduates from the Royal College of Art in London to paint the covers which apparently had to be done in a bit of a rush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I decided to see if the artists\u00a0are still at work and managed to contact three of the four namely <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/\/Blog\/Languages\/Spotlight.htm\">Russell Mills, Chloe Cheese and Cathie Felstead <\/a><\/span>who all kindly replied (are you out there Gary McCarver?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russell painted at least six covers for PAN and I&#8217;ve tracked down five so if I can&#8217;t find the missing one I&#8217;ll put up the others next week.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981 PAN decided to bring out a series of four books titled &#8216;Spotlight On &#8230;.&#8221; French, German, Italian and Spanish. The format was that they contained clippings from advertisements, newspapers, cartoons, instruction manuals, books etc. all in the language of that particular title. What makes them a little different was that, although using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}