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Splendid page design in today's Sunday Guardian attracts folks to a review of The Last Mas: Minshall in the Carnival of Trinidad & Tobago by journalist and "one-time Minshallite" Franka Philip

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Galleryyuhself - Researched by Lee Johnson from the archive of Angelo Bissessarsingh.

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This is an ad from the POS Gazette in 1870. Look at the bottom section of the ad and you’ll see a section advertising its restaurant.

It was clearly a small evolution of the Trinidad Ice Company, accustomed to selling meats, wines and other foodstuffs to evolve into a restaurant.

It’s likely that it was one of the first restaurants in the (British) Caribbean. The French were the ones who initiated the idea of the restaurant. After the defeat of Napoleon, several of the gourmet chefs who had worked for the French nobility, found it lucrative to offer their services to the broader public (One Mathurin Roze de Chantoiseau is credited as being the “author’ of the modern restaurant).

Trinidad at the time was essentially French; and the royalist, French gentry who made up the planter class (and whose purchases seemed like a shopping list from a gourmet deli, catering to lifestyles eager to ape Parisian fashion) would have been customers to this new establishment. The restaurant offered substantially different fare from the inns and taverns that were the only other places of public food consumption.

The restaurant was initially a kind of dish, made up of a variety of herbs, usually brandy and a selection of meats, slowly reduced to a bouillon consistency. This concoction was seen as a health restorative. Indeed, the word restaurant is derived from the word restaurer, the French for restore.

Just as the Parisian society would go to cafes to enjoy coffee, so too would they go to specialist places to enjoy the meal, restaurant. These specialist places effortlessly morphed into the modern restaurant where one went to enjoy the delights of specialist cuisine.

Trinidad in 1870 (or the white French creole society) was but a heartbeat behind fashionable Parisian society.

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~Galleryyuhself~ A peek at the papers.

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                A question that so many people are asking these days.

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~Galleryyuhself~ Once upon a time in Trinidad and Tobago advertising.

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~Galleryyuhself~ Three newspapers. three different approaches to readership.

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~Galleryyuhself~ A walk down memory lane to a very different Trinidad and Tobago.

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~Galleryyuhself~ These last few weeks in media has produced so much kul-tear. Lol.

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~Galleryyuhself~  ~Galleryyuhself~ Getting messages right is a large part of Graphic Design. This local newspaper paints a meaningful picture.

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Highlighting student work: Salisha Gunness

~Galleryyuhself ~ Salisha Gunness, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago is a year two BAs in Visual Arts Design student.

She tells Galleryyuhself about her project

After looking through our daily newspapers,  I decided that I wanted to redesign Solo’s current Coconut Flavoured Water advertisement which is located in the front page of our local newspaper for a school project. While doing research on art movements I became interested in pop art and I decided to use pop art characteristics to redesign this advertisement.

Pop art is a movement (1955 - 1970) and it is a style that is based on simple, bold images of everyday items to create designs. The pop art movement aimed to solidify the idea that art can draw from any source and there is no hierarchy of culture to disrupt this. It is easily recognizable due to its vibrancy and unique characteristics that are present in many of the most iconic works of the movement. Some of the characteristics of pop art are recognizable imagery, bright primary colours, innovative techniques, mixed media and collage. I became inspired by famous pop artists where I did a sketch and I used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to design the advertisement for my project.

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~Galleryyuhself~ Trinidad and Tobago can come across as though Tobago is an afterthought. Here is a look at the Tobago newspaper. 

This page found online is a shock however, as the colour yellow with white text surely cannot be the decision made for reading and legibility? Far less for the line length of each sentance? Again, sometimes design is so bad that it becomes a ‘style’ onto itself.

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