A comprehensive look at the history of the history of beauty-product advertising, charting the skills of advertiser promising to make beauty-dreams come true.
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Crusaders of Art and Design 1920-1970 brings to the fore the personalities who contributed to design and the arts over a 50-year period.
Covering mid-20th century textile advertising Trading Textiles not only illustrates what was happening in graphic design generally but the changing character of the textile industry itself.
A survey of posters produced by Heal's from 1917 to 1983
The first book to focus on Edward McKight Kauffer's designs for book jackets, including illustrations of some 250 jackets and an account of the publishers who commissioned them.
Recounts almost 40 years of the history of the magazine 'Commerical Art', and its mirroring of British design over that period.
Printing People celebrates the role of the traditional printing press and the individuals involved in the revival of British printing in the twentieth century.
This fully illustrated title tells the remarkable story of printing pioneer Lund Humphries of Bradford.
Traces the early development of design talent, exploring the possibility of a unique range of characteristics that makes design success predictable from an early age.