Design Archive Feature, Design Education, Ephemera, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design

• United Kingdom
• Victorian and Edwardian graphic design

Student Work (1907 – 1910) from The Polytechnic School of Printing, London

I came across two sample books containing printed examples of the work executed by the students in the Composing and Machine Departments of the Polytechnic School of Printing, between 1907 and 1910. I couldn't resist adding these to the archive.

Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Japan
• Japanese Modernism

East Meets West. The advertising posters of Yoshio Hayakawa

Yoshio Hayakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1917 and became a leading designer and artist in postwar Japan. His work was a harmonisation of traditional Japanese art with Western art.

Book Reviews & Press Releases

To Have and To Hold: A visual collection of paper bag ephemera from a bygone era

To Have and To Hold, contains hundreds of bag designs collected during over half a century. The book is a must-buy for anyone interested in ephemera, the history of design or British high street history.