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25 produkter
P&O
A History
Häftad, 2012
114 kr
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From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Initially, the company's paddle steamers carried Her Majesty's Mail to the Iberian Peninsula, as the name implies, …
Unsung Leader of the Field
A tribute to the advertising agency The London Press Exchange
Häftad, 2024
166 kr
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The London Press Exchange (LPE), founded in 1892, grew out of an agency set up by two young reporters in London to supply news items to provincial papers. It was to grow to become the biggest and most profitable advertising agency in Britain. Yet it never was to attract the publicity as did lesser …
Studio Ltd.
A Family Affair
Häftad, 2024
154 kr
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In the late decades of the 19th century a textile manufacturer sent his teenage son to Leeds to develop the business. Little did Mr. Holme senior know what that move would lead to. The young man, Charles Holme, happened to attend a lecture given by a business man just returned from the Far East. In …
Fitzrovia, 1900-1950
An Artist's Domain
Häftad, 2025
158 kr
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Fitzrovia is a notional area not to be found on any official document and, indeed, was not so called until the 1940s, named by a habitue at the Fitzroy Tavern, the journalist-cum-member of parliament, Tom Driberg. It was, for some half century, a haven for artists. This was partly due to the cheap …
Modern Design in 1930s Britain
Häftad, 2025
163 kr
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The '30s would not seem the most propitious time for design, with companies recovering from the depression in the first few years, and preparing for war in the last few. Yet it was in the 1930s that, in Britain, the government gave full acknowledgement to the contribution design could make to the …
P&O
A History
E-bok, 2012
114 kr
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From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially, the company''s paddle steamers carried Her Majesty''s Mail to the Iberian Peninsula, as the name …
P&O
A History
E-bok, 2012
114 kr
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From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially, the company''s paddle steamers carried Her Majesty''s Mail to the Iberian Peninsula, as the name …
Jan Le Witt and George Him
Design
Inbunden, 2008
173 kr
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Jan Le Witt and George Him were a comparative rarity, a graphic design duo; signing their work as 'Lewitt-Him' they brought an innovative use of colour, imaginative abstraction and symbolism to commercial design. Both Polish by birth, they arrived in London in 1937, sponsored by the Victoria and …
FHK Henrion
Design
Inbunden, 2011
173 kr
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F.H.K Henrion was one of a distinguished group of graphic designers - refugees from Europe just prior to World War II, who brought cutting-edge continental design to the rather parochial English scene. He quickly made his mark as a poster designer for the Ministry of Information, and, parallel to …
Becoming a Designer
Häftad, 2022
166 kr
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Designers come in all shapes and sizes and apply their talents to an enormous range of things, from books to refrigerators to clothes to stage scenery. Can such a motley crew be grouped together under one head; and do their diverse passions have common roots?Becoming a Designer traces the early …
Commercial Art
The Journal that Charted 20th Century Design
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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"Anyone reading this who aspires to chronicle a segment of 20th-century Western design must have Artmonsky‘s modest but essential library of books. And while you are ordering, thank her for this invaluable detour from the fields of psychology and statistics." — Printmag Commercial Art, with …
Printing People
A macramé of players in the revival of British printing in the twentieth century
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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The inter-war years saw a revival of interest in print, not merely as a technical means of reproduction but aesthetically as a medium for communicating meaning. The private press movement burgeoned, intent on moving printing towards being an art form. But at a more earthy level came the Monotype …
Showing Off
Fifty Years of London Store Publicity and Display
Häftad, 2013
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Showing Off catalogues a fifty year history of some of London's most splendid and iconic stores; illustrating the formula for successful survival in a competitive and rapidly changing marketplace. These stores have used the architecture and design of the buildings as their trademark, created …
Here's to Your Health
50 Years of Health and Safety Advertising and Publicity
Av Ruth Artmonsky, Stella Harpley
Häftad, 2015
158 kr
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Through the ages, people have been bombarded with advice, direction or hard selling on ways to keep safe and sound - some of this underpinned by 'science', some just common sense, and some sheer quackery. Here's to Your Health, with its focus on advertising, covers just a sample of such cajoling …
Tuppence Plain, Penny Coloured
50 Years of Furniture Advertising and Selling
Häftad, 2016
123 kr
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Twopence Plain, Penny Coloured charts the way furniture has been sold to the British public for some 50 years - from the 1920s to the 1960s - from days when furniture was still being piled on the pavement in front of a workshop in the East End of London, to the heady days of experiencing a whole …
Austin Cooper, Master of the Poster
Häftad, 2018
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Austin Cooper was by chance of birth a Canadian but built his career as a commercial artist in London. Art-educated in Wales and Scotland, he became, in the inter-war years, one of the most highly-respected poster artist in the United Kingdom - one of L.N.E.R's 'elite' five, his name comparable to …
First Golden Age of British Advertising
Häftad, 2018
162 kr
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The 'golden age' of advertising is usually seen to be the last decades of the 20th century, centred on Fitzrovia, vast in quantity, swamping the plethora of magazines and newspapers appearing (and disappearing) at that time, and making optimal use of the novelty of commercial television. But the …
Holidaying
50 Years of Advertising and Publicity Relating to Holidays
Häftad, 2019
158 kr
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Holidaying was something only the wealthy could afford, well into the 19th century, visiting spas or taking the Grand Tour. With the coming of the railways whole factories, streets, even towns began to down tools for an annual break; with entrepreneurs like Thomas Cook, some even venturing across …
Wrapping It Up
50 Years of British Packaging Design 1920-1970
Av Ruth Artmonsky, Stella Harpley
Häftad, 2019
127 kr
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Packaging is something of a hot topic at the moment, but in our eagerness to get rid of as much of it as possible we need to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Wrapping It Up gives an account of the usefulness of packaging to all involved - manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer …
Heal's Posters
Advertising Modernism
Häftad, 2020
158 kr
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A survey by Nicklaus Pevsner in the 1930s estimated that some 80-90% of manufactured goods in England were shoddy and poorly designed. When it came to furniture only a handful of manufacturers would have escaped such condemnation. Prime among these was Heals of Tottenham Court Road - manufacturer, …
Art for Everyone
Contemporary Lithographs Ltd
Inbunden, 2010
179 kr
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Reproduces all of the works from the Contemporary Lithographs scheme for the first time.
Crusaders of Art and Design 1920-1970
Häftad, 2020
166 kr
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Crusaders for art and design were men and women who were prepared to give their energy, talents, and oftimes money, to encourage young artists and designers to adventure in their chosen fields and generally to raise the status of the ‘fine’ and ‘applied’ arts and their creators.Many of these …
Sellers of Dreams
Fifty years of the advertising of beauty products 1920-1970
Häftad, 2020
158 kr
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From the latter part of the 19th century there was a fever of experiment resulting in the development of what were to become brand-named beauty products. Some manufacturers were generally interested in producing ‘healthy’ products that could beautify without harming; others were chancers climbing …
Trading Textiles
50 Years of Advertising for Fibres and Fabrics. 1920-1970
Häftad, 2021
166 kr
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The focus of the plethora of books on British textiles has largely been on their design and designers; relatively little has been written on the marketing of the products. Trading Textiles whilst making reference to the many avenues and methods for selling fibres and fabrics focussed on press …
Pioneering Printer
Lund Humphries of Bradford
Häftad, 2022
163 kr
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Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of the world’s wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries …
