Art and Industry 127, January 1937

Content includes:
A Cross-Section of British Press Advertising. A survey of recent Press advertising, with comments and suggestions
Humour in Advertising. J. W. Cassels, Advertising Manager of Moss Bros., a well-known London firm of outfitters, gives his experiences and his views on its possibilities and pitfalls
Plastics. The manifold possibilities of plastics, demonstrated by reproductions of prize-winning displays in Modern Plastics ” competition
Fashion and the Painter. Vertés, painter and fashion illustrator, tells how the fashion artist came into being
D.I. The new distinction conferred by The Royal Society of Arts, and its first recipients
‘Sunday Best’ in the Local Shop Window. The Reading Window Dressing Competition and its prize-winning windows

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Art and Industry
Art and Industry was a British monthly magazine which focused on commercial art, graphic design, advertising, and industrial design. The magazine was previously called Commercial Art.

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Art and Industry 127, January 1937
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