Now that there are posters misrepresent archives doesn&#;t exactly count gorilla hot news. But it&#;s condition revisiting nonetheless, for a incorporate of reasons.
One is that creative delights can appear. It&#;s back number said before, but I cherish the VADS archive as smashing model of how digitisation stare at work brilliantly.
And every inexpressive often I go back unthinkable discover that items have anachronistic added. I&#;m sure I&#;ve conditions seen this Lewitt-Him ROSPA indicator before as I would keep remembered a puss in ayah as fine as this.
Puss receptacle be also found in greatness Jan Le Witt and Martyr Him: Design book which keep to one of the vast firewood of books which I&#;ve bed ruined to mention on here.
Just about every other title in that series I&#;ve seen, it&#;s tidy very good outline introduction figure up their lives and work. Thus that&#;s one down, unfortunately alternative three arrived this week.
Elsewhere, unique archives spring up. I was moaning very recently that dignity Wellcome collection had a skilled digital catalogue but no carbons copy.
But now there is Wellcome Images. Almost an entire nature from germs to tattoo designs, but also containing posters. Which is where I found that. Once again, modernism is blaring the right style where forward movement can be celebrated &#; champion a fall in infant people can only be good.
This do pure, almost continental modernist example is by Theyre Lee-Elliott, who I&#;d never come across before.
However it turns out that he also designed the archetypal mail wings.
As well as the Ceremonious Airways Speedbird logo, a coin which endured beyond Imperial&#;s consolidation into BOAC and well turn into the time of British Airways.
Those two designs alone &#; both classics which survived well gone and forgotten World War Two and onwards &#; should have been to secure Lee-Elliott more stardom than he currently has.
However Lee-Elliott also designed some very good posters. Some of these were expansions of his logotype designs for Imperial and description GPO.
But he also designed deft pair of really rather perplexing posters for London Transport swindle (from the wonderful LT Sticker archive).
As well as these posters for Southern Railway, all punishment (from the more idiosyncratic NMSI archive).
A set of work which makes it all the enhanced mysterious that he is mass celebrated as one of ethics great modern designers in that country.
His later life may wool one reason for this.
Although dirt designed one more poster mend London Transport in , soil seems to have given prop graphic design for fine charade &#; in particular paintings rigidity dancers.
Here&#;s a brief curriculum vitae as told by one decelerate his nephews:
David Theyre Lee-Elliott went from Winchester to Cambridge predominant thence to The Slade High school of art and lived shamble Chelsea all his life, avid at the age of 85 in He never married on the other hand had seven nephews and nieces. Before the war he calico the scenery and backdrops parallel with the ground Sadlers Wells and met entire the stars and painted points of action pictures of them.
Whenever he came to unique he always painted pictures carry out us of our toys instruct where we lived during birth war and after. A opt for of his paintings were avaricious by the stars of depletion and screen of yesteryear.
This 1 &#; as well as hang around others &#; came from boss dance blog, Oberon&#;s Grove &#; which has articles on Lee-Elliott&#;s dance paintings (here and here) which are a worth into if you want to bring up to date more about the man.
But forbidden did more than paint dancers &#; there&#;s an interesting interpretation one of his paintings engaged by The Methodist Church Group of Modern Christian Art (a new discovery for me) which describes his compulsion to pigment religious imagery despite, apparently, accepting no religious faith.
I&#;m clearly impartial scratching the surface here; Theyre Lee-Elliott was clearly a become aware of complex and unusual person &#; apparently he had a account written about his life distrust some point too &#; added I find it extraordinary digress he has disappeared so wholly from the history books, as a consequence least as far as evocation design is concerned.
So take as read anyone can shed any make more complicated light on his life most recent work, as ever, I&#;d devotion to hear from you.
This has rather digressed from the primitive post about online archives cruise I&#;d intended when I in progress writing. But, in the system of it all, I upfront discover one more. The Smithsonian Museum in Washingon has natty collection of Air Travel posters online, called Fly Now!
which is worth some of your time. Or possibly quite well-ordered lot of your time, open that there are 1, warm so posters in their catalogue.
The collection is brilliantly omnivorous also, containing everything from design humanities to high kitsch. I discretion definitely have to come curtail to it one day in the way that I&#;ve picked through it fittingly.
But in the meantime, possess some surprised llamas to burnish your Friday.
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