I know little about Frederick Lambert save the fact that he taught typography at the London College of Printing (now LCC) and worked for a time at Letraset, being was responsible for the design of a number of their typefaces. His most successful was Compacta produced in 1963…
It was a popular alternative to Schnelfetter Grotesk…
the much lusted after headline face used in Twen magazine, but very difficult to get hold of. Lambert also produced this book…
Letterforms. It is rather special for me as can seen by the beautifully handwritten inscription. It was given to me on my 21st by my boss at the second studio I worked at in the mid 60’s…
Lambert also organized several graphic design exhibitions and books to accompany them. This one…
published in 1967 features Lambert’s Compacta face on the jacket. The contents are a pretty good record of a more general look at British graphics of the period, rather than the rarified work show in 17 Graphic Designers London that I posted a couple of weeks back. Here is a run of spreads punctuated with the occasional personal comment…
A lovley poster above for Visual Aspects of Science by the very talented but long forgoten Larry Carter.
The poster bottom left for the London Planetarium was designed by Romek Marber.
Two very nice posters. Bottom left by Robert Claxton for the Mermaid Theatre. And Ron Ford's poster for the 1964 Design Centre Awards.
The advertisment above right is by Robert Brownjohn for McCann Erikson London.
Right hand page, bottom left a beautiful book cover design by Larry Carter. To the right of that a book cover by Neil Godfrey who went on to become one of the legendary art directors at the ad agency CDP.
The book cover bottom right was by Sam Sulliman an American designer who worked briefly in the UK in the 60's. Back home in the States he had produced some very nice album covers, more of which another time.
Top right the very first issues of Nova magazine art directed by Harri Peccinotti who was also a great photographer.
Above left some of the many newspaper graphic banners greated by the late Raymond Hawkey. For more on him click here.
Can you tell me if the book graphic design Britain, only have photographs, or it has text too?
I'. doing research about British graphic design, and I need to now if I buy the book or not.
Maria João Bom
Posted by: Maria João Bom | April 26, 2012 at 07:44 PM
Hello Maria - The book was published back in the 1960's so I very much doubt that you would be able to get it as it is no longer in print. There is a very good book about the history of graphics, including British which might fit the bill. I's called 'Graphic Design: A Concise History' by Richard Hollis published by Thames & Hudson. You'll get it on Amazon.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Dempsey | April 26, 2012 at 11:16 PM
Ah! The great Fred Lambert, who with Usha Urgwal, designed and edited Typos journal. Fred also organised the Graphics UK exhibitions and related catalogue. I thought of this as the alternative D&AD where the great unknowns could be discovered. The UK has plenty unsung design heros. I remember the work of Gavin Healy from Graphics UK. Gavin who? Exactly! I think somewhere else on your blog you have the equally great David King. Here's one of my heros, Geoff White with his pop-up exhibition at the LCC: http://tinyurl.com/ce4v6e6
Posted by: Tony Pritchard | April 09, 2013 at 10:43 AM