To Kill a Mockingbird, Penguin Books, 1964

Derek Birdsall

Book

Details

Format Book
Designer/s Derek Birdsall
Year 1964
Client/Publisher Penguin Books
Size 111mm x 180mm

Derek Birdsall

Derek Birdsall was born in Yorkshire in 1934. His clients included magazines such as Town, Twen and Nova and numerous companies and organisations including British Iron & Steel Federation, the British Railways, Morphy Richard. Pirelli, Dorothy Gray, Penguin Books and the Mobil Oil Corporation. Birdsall was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Royal Designer for Industry (1982), and won numerous awards including gold medal of the New York Art Directors Club (1987) and the Prince Philip Designers prize (2005). Explore related designers including 8vo and Neville Brody. See also Postmodernism and 1990s graphic design history.

Linked Information

Design Format: Book
Designed in the: 1960s

To Kill a Mockingbird, Penguin Books, 1964 Cover design Derek Birdsall

More graphic design artefacts

view more of the graphic design archive

Wolfgang Bäumer, Singular Graphic Composition, the advertisements of the Klöckner-Werke AG

Bäumer gave the company a unique brand image amplifying its graphical image after a time of post-war economic recovery. This style of advertising composition can be seen across many 1960s campaigns, especially from other German designers such as Anton Stankowski.

Read Article

Jazz Journal. Britain’s longest enduring jazz magazine.

Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

United Kingdom

Jazz Journal. Britain’s longest enduring jazz magazine.

Jazz Journal was first published in 1946 by Sinclair Traill, who also had some of his photographs used on the covers. The magazine is now online but remained in print for several decades, as Britain's longest enduring jazz magazine.

Read Article