Workshops and Lectures

Inspiring students from Leeds Beckett University

Last month (March 2022), I spoke to over fifty Graphic Design undergraduates about the archive and my passion for design history, after which the students had full access to items in the collection and participated in discourse amongst their peers and lecturers. As part of their critical studies unit, the students will be producing essays and content related to the impact, history and aesthetics of selected artefacts.

Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories

• Switzerland
• International Typographic Style (Swiss Style)

Swiss Posters from the 1956 Best Poster Award (Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1956)

The best poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1956 with a translated foreword by Jakob Rudolf Welti. Featuring the work of Herbert Leupin, Carl B. Graf, Carlo Vivarelli and Emil Ruder.

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

• United Kingdom
• Mid Century Modernism, British Modernism

Ken Garland and Galt Toys

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.