Edward McKnight Kauffer

Recent articles about Edward McKnight Kauffer

A curatorial homecoming

Issue 102, Autumn 2021

Review

‘As a bird, forever in flight, forever searching for a place to come to rest’ was novelist Arnold Bennett’s description of his friend Edward McKnight Kauffer …

Seaside splendour

Issue 101, Summer 2021

Review

Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…

Mining the graphic mother-lode

Opinion

Rochester Institute of Technology opens its American design archive to the online world. Critique by Rick Poynor

Recent blog posts about Edward McKnight Kauffer

Are we there yet?

27 April 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Visual culture

In the second instalment of Eye’s online series about graphic design at the UK seaside, Justin Burns navigates the history of the travel poster
The Bank Holiday, a very British institution, was first introduced in 1871, allowing workers an…

Resorting to type

16 April 2020
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

In the first of a new series of Eye blog posts, Justin Burns explores the graphic language of the British seaside
Walk along the promenade and we are met with the sounds, smells and signs that…

Warning cries

14 January 2016
Design history, Illustration, Posters, Reviews, Visual culture

Paul Rennie casts new light on RoSPA’s safety posters. Review of Safety First by Clare Walters
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) employed many of the best designers…

London’s American poster king

29 May 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

McKnight Kauffer’s Modernist posters for London Underground go under the hammer next week. By Graham Twemlow
In the design canon, from a contemporary perspective, the American-born poster artist Edward McKnight Kauffer…

Wanted: space for posters

7 March 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

In the wake of last week’s V&A symposium, two attendees make an impassioned plea for the foundation of a British poster museum.
For more than two centuries the poster has occupied public space on hoardings, building sites…