DESIGNERS IN BRITAIN 2
A BIENNIAL REVIEW OF GRAPHIC AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
The Society of Industrial Artists [Compiler]
The Society of Industrial Artists [Compiler]: DESIGNERS IN BRITAIN 2: A BIENNIAL REVIEW OF GRAPHIC AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. London and New York: Allan Wingate and Museum Books, 1949. First edition. Folio. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Printed dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. 291 pp. Color Frontis. Well illustrated in black and white. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Dust jacket edges lightly nicked. a superior copy of this oversized volume. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
9.5 x 12 hardcover book with 291 pages with hundreds of examples of postwar British design in all areas of the decorative arts.
From the book: "The first volume of Designers In Britain, which was compiled by the Society of Industrial Artists and published by Allan Wingate in 1947, was a far greater success than the Society had dared to hope.
"This second volume has been produced under the same auspices in the confident anticipation that it will prove not so much a substitute for its predecessor, as it complement, and so carry the record of the work being done by designers in Great Britain over the two years which have elapsed.
Together, these two volumes will form the basis of a permenant reference library to which a new edition will be added biennially. Each volume will be a comprehensive progress report on design as it emerges from the studios of both the established and the rising generations of British artists, so that, gradually, the series should build up into a most valuable history in which the artist and the industrialist alike will be able to trace the threads of evolution, the growths, the new ideas, the traditionalisms, the decays and the fresh inspirations which are the life-story of this as of every other form of art."
Contents:
- Foreword by Peter Ray on Behalf of the Council of the Society of Industrial Artists
- Acknowledgments, Copyright, and Glossary of Professional Affixes
- Index to Designers
- Design for Industry: Selected by Christian Barman, Enid Marx, and R. D. Russell
- Radio Cabinets
- Prefabricated Buildings
- Furniture
- Light Fittings and Equipment
- Domestic Equipment
- Ceramics
- Glass and Plate
- Wallpaper
- Textiles
- Carpets and Rugs
- Shoes, Leather, Travel Goods
- Transport
- Industrial Equipment
- Instruments
- Design for Marketing and Publishing: Selected by Jack Beddington, James Fitton, and F. H. K. Henrion
- Exhibitions and Display
- Packaging
- Stationery
- Greeting Cards
- Bookplates, Trade Marks, Symbols
- Press Advertisements
- Posters
- Booklets, Leaflets, Folders
- Illustration for Advertising
- Fashion Illustration
- Cartoons, Humorous Illustration
- Periodical and Magazine Illustration
- Book Illustration
- Book Design
- Book Jackets
- Magazine Covers
- Magazine Layout
- Work by Student Members of the S. I. A.
- Index to Advertisers
- Advertisements
Designers represented in this volume include: John Adams, Frank Austin, Ronald Avery, Eric Ayers, George Ayers, Michael Ayrton, John Bainbride, John Barker, John Barnes, Edward Bawden, Cecil Beaton, Leonard Beaumont, Peter Bell, Maurice Bennett, Noreen Bennett, Nicolas Bentley, Misha Black, Paul Boissevain, Joyce Booth, James Boswell, Gordon Bowyer, Ian Bradbery, Anthony Brandt, Ronald Brookes, John Buckland-Wright, Ann Buckmaster, Stefan Buzas, David Caplan, Hugh Casson, Hulme Chadwick, Malvina Cheek, Edwin Clinch, George Collett, Aldo Cosomati, Ernest Cuddy, Gordon Cullen, Trevor Dannatt, Frank Davies, Lucienne Day, Robin Day, W. M. De Majo, Ronald Dickens, Geoffrey Dunn, Sheila Dunn, Ronald Eames, Thomas Eckersley, Susan Einzig, Arpad Elfer, Pearl Falconer, George Fejer, Eric Ferguson, James Fitton, Eric Fraser, Austin Frazer, Elisabeth Friedlander, Abram Games, Donald Gardner, Sydney Arthur Garrad, Tom Gentleman, Alexander Gibson, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Goaman, Walter Goetz, R. Y. Goodden (Godden), Milner Gray, Ronald Grierson, Jacqueline Groag, Jacques Groag, Robert Gutmann, Frank Guille, John Hanna, Derrick Harris, Charles Hasler, Joan Hassall, Ashley Havinden, J. Christopher Heal, Alec Heath, F. H. K. Henrion, Eric Hobbs, Ernest Hoch, Peter Hoffer, Paul Hogarth, James Holland, Diana Hughes-Hughes, Arthur Hundleby, Ronald Ingles, Frank Jennings, Barbara Jones, Bronek Katz, Clive Latimer, Lewitt-Him, R. A. Maynard, John Minton, Alastair Morton, Reginald Mount, James Newmark, Percival James Packman, Ian Parsons, John Parsons, Beverly Pick, Stuart Rose, Laurence Scarfe, Gaby Schreiber, Ronald Searle, Raymond Sherborne, Norah Smallwood, Herbert Spencer, Reynolds Stone, Millicent Taplin, Rodney Thomas, Jan Tschichold, Hellmuth Weissenborn, Edward Wright and others.