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 responsible for the design of a number of their typefaces. His most successful being Compacta produced in 1963…
It was a popular alternative to Schmelfetter Grotesk…
the much lusted after headline face used in Twen magazine, but very difficult to get hold of.
A Lambert book cover from the 1960's.
Lambert also produced this book…
Letterforms. It is rather special for me as can be 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 organised 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 lovely poster above for Visual Aspects of Science by the very talented but long forgotten 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 advertisement 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 created by the late Raymond Hawkey. For more on him click here.