Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

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Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961

 

Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
Red Cross, Czechoslovakia Matchbox Labels, 1961
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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
The Paris Poster Hoardings of 1938. Posters gleam forth accentuating the melody of this city as they direct the eye to articles of everyday use and above all to people who are the talk of the hour.
The background of Kamekura's mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.
Ken was born in 1929, in Southampton and grew up in a small market town in North Devon. He was a principled man, with strong values and views against the hyper-consumerism we live with today. Ken studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.