Up in Arms: posters for protest, solidarity, engagement and action
Up in Arms, an exhibition curated to coincide with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing annual conference, ‘Publishing Anti-fascism’ shows posters from the collection of twentieth-century posters is one of the highlights of the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections. It displays posters from a range of sources, some designed by well-known designers including […]
Way of Type – Evolution of Chinese Typeforms
The exhibition charts the development of type and type-making technologies in China, from the invention of movable type in the eleventh century to the design of digital typefaces of today. It provides a great opportunity to learn more about the many innovative Chinese type designs created in different eras using varied techniques and technologies. The […]
Concrete poetry in Britain, 1963–75
Based on material from the collection of the late Andrew Belsey, philosophy lecturer, concrete poet and MA graduate from Typography & Graphic Communication, “Objects made of letters” explores and illustrates concrete poetry in its heyday. The experience of a concrete poem is always visual, the meaning – in the absence of conventional poetic imagery and […]
The 1980s: selected items from an iconic decade
The exhibition ran between September and December 2022. A showcase display explores items from the Collections from the 1980s. Our two work-experience students, who worked with Emma Minns (Assistant Curator of the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections) on the reorganisation of our twentieth-century poster collection, were excited to find our music posters. This then […]
Marie Neurath: picturing science
Marie Neurath: picturing science is the digital legacy of an exhibition at House of Illustration in 2019, curated by Sue Walker and her team, as part of an AHRC-funded project. It shows material from the Otto and Marie Neurath Collection, as well as resources for young people based on this.
Ed Fella: Exit Level Design, 1985–2012
This exhibition ran between 31 January –25 March 2022. This exhibition curated by Rick Poynor showed work of the American graphic designer Edward Fella. For 30 years, Fella (born 1938) worked as a designer, commercial artist and illustrator in Detroit, Michigan. In the second phase of his career – the focus of this exhibition – […]
Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at
This exhibition was open until 9 September 2022. An exhibition explores the concept of the male gaze in twentieth-century illustration through the female representation in Charles Mozley’s work. Cătălina Zlotea, a PhD researcher, analyses the work of the prolific mid-century British illustrator Charles Mozley (1914–1991) through a contemporary lens. At a moment when gender dynamics […]