Join the Mailing List

Membership

Graphic Design History from Design Reviewed

Volpone, The National Theatre, London, 1976

,

Information

Details

  • Format: Programme
  • Designer/s: Ken Briggs and Susan Chennells
  • Year: 1976
  • Client/Publisher: The National Theatre, London
  • Size: 130mm x 230mm
Ken Briggs was born in 1931 in Derbyshire, studied at Chesterfield School of Arts & Crafts and later at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London, alongside notable designers like Ken Garland and Colin Forbes. After National Service, he worked briefly as a typographer at Everetts. In the late 1950s, Ken freelanced for clients like the Arts Council and Rathbone Books while teaching part-time. In the 1960s, he won the design contract for The National Theatre, where his use of photography and Letraset set the visual tone for its future designs.

Linked Information

Volpone, The National Theatre, London, 1976 designed by Ken Briggs and Susan Chennells
Volpone, The National Theatre, London, 1976 designed by Ken Briggs and Susan Chennells
Ken Briggs was born in 1931 in Derbyshire, studied at Chesterfield School of Arts & Crafts and later at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London, alongside notable designers like Ken Garland and Colin Forbes. After National Service, he worked briefly as a typographer at Everetts. In the late 1950s, Ken freelanced for clients like the Arts Council and Rathbone Books while teaching part-time. In the 1960s, he won the design contract for The National Theatre, where his use of photography and Letraset set the visual tone for its future designs.
More graphic design artefacts
Typografische Monatsblätter, 6-7, 1969. Cover design by Theophil Stirnemann
From the design archive:

Typografische Monatsblätter, 6-7, 1969

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Theophil Stirnemann
  • Year: 1969
View Artefact
Form, No.9, April 1969
From the design archive:

Form, No.9, April 1969

  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 1969
View Artefact
Willem Sandberg, Typograaf als Museumman, 1982
From the design archive:

Willem Sandberg, Typograaf als Museumman, 1982

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Willem Sandberg
  • Year: 1982
View Artefact
Typographica, New Series 16, 1967. Designed by Herbert Spencer
From the design archive:

Typographica, New Series 16, 1967

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Herbert Spencer
  • Year: 1967
View Artefact

view more of the graphic design archive

More graphic design history articles

Members Content

Bicycle Maintenance and Adjustment, Guide, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), c. mid 1970s
  • Members Only Content

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and the Cycling Proficiency Scheme

Collected examples of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Cycling Safety and Proficiency design output, a landmark initiative aimed at enhancing cycling safety.
Full-page ads for the newspaper «Stuttgarter Nachrichten» designed by Herbert W. Kapitzki
  • Design Archive Feature

Abstract Publicity – Self-Advertisements of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten by Fritz Seitz, 1963

The graphic designer had to create a series of ads whose new publicity effects were to confirm or accentuate the already existing • image • of the paper. In this case, the planning was not based on a would-be psychological analysis of the reading public.

Members Content

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 opus 35 & No. 2 opus 102. Record 2 Rudolph de Harak.
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Music Artwork

Rudolph de Harak and Westminster Records

Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

Members Content

Social Welfare Funds, Netherlands Maxi Card (Yellow), 1970. Designed by Ootje Oxenaar
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

The Innovative Netherlands Stamps designed by Ootje Oxenaar in 1970

Ootje Oxenaar designed the summer stamps for the Netherlands using an assignment from De Nederlandsche Bank based on banknotes. The assignment resulted in the collaboration of Oxenaar, the printer, the laboratory and the banking specialist, in which they experimented with the design of securities on printed matter.