Thursday, 1:30pm
17 September 2009

British designers, ca. 1963

The spread everyone’s been asking about, from Typographica

OK, here’s a better view of that famous feature: photographs of British designers from Typographica no. 7 (New Series), printed in silver ink with a glassine overlay.

See last week’s Eye blog, Birth of the Modern about the current show at Kemistry.

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Above left: Left column, top to bottom, Richard Negus & Philip Sharland; Graham Johnson; Germano Facetti; Walter Truman-Cox. Middle column: Edward Wright; Robin Fior; Alan Bartram; Ken Garland. Right column, John Sewell, Richard Hollis, Romek Marber, Frank Overton.

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Above right: Left column Margaret Calvert & Jock Kinneir; Peter Wildbur, Leslie McCombie, Dennis Bailey. Middle column, Ian Bradbery; Bob Gill, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes; Gordon House; Herbert Spencer. Right column, Paul Peter-Piech; Richard Hamilton; Theo Crosby.

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