Collection: Advertising Design

This collection is focused primarily on the visual aspects of creative advertising, and includes some intriguing books, journals, posters and printed ephemera from across the decades.

Copy Technique in Advertising including a System of Copy Synthesis, a Classification of Copy Sources, and a Section on Copy Construction by Richard Surrey | McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1930

Copy Technique in Advertising including a System of Copy Synthesis, a Classification of Copy Sources, and a Section on Copy Construction by Richard Surrey | McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1930

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Printing Reproduction Pocket Pal. First UK edition edited by Leslie H. May | Advertising Agency Production Association, undated

Printing Reproduction Pocket Pal. First UK edition edited by Leslie H. May | Advertising Agency Production Association, undated

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McKnight Kauffer Posters for London Transport list relating to the display at the London Transport Museum in 1983

McKnight Kauffer Posters for London Transport list relating to the display at the London Transport Museum in 1983

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'Cuts and Gashes Can Be Fatal'. RoSPA Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents. Public information poster. Reference number suggests a date of 1944

'Cuts and Gashes Can Be Fatal'. RoSPA Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents. Public information poster. Reference number suggests a date of 1944

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Parkett. No 77, 2006 journal | Carsten Höller, Trisha Donnelly, Rudolf Stingel

Parkett. No 77, 2006 journal | Carsten Höller, Trisha Donnelly, Rudolf Stingel

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Booklet The Jackdaw of Rheims by Thomas Goldsby, illustrated by Alice B. Woodward | Colman's Mustard promotional advertisement, 1901

Booklet The Jackdaw of Rheims by Thomas Goldsby, illustrated by Alice B. Woodward | Colman's Mustard promotional advertisement, 1901

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PLAN Group – Architectural Student's Association journal | Issue No. 6, 1949

PLAN Group – Architectural Student's Association journal | Issue No. 6, 1949

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D'Arabesques - type specimen sheet | Fonderie Typographique Française, 1953? design by Crous-Vidal

D'Arabesques - type specimen sheet | Fonderie Typographique Française, 1953? design by Crous-Vidal

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Your Guide to Decimal Money | Decimal Current Board / HMSO booklet/leaflets 1970

Your Guide to Decimal Money | Decimal Current Board / HMSO booklet/leaflets 1970

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Alec Davis – Type in Advertising | Published by Raithby, Lawrence & Company, c.1950

Alec Davis – Type in Advertising | Published by Raithby, Lawrence & Company, c.1950

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W.S. Crawford Crawfords advertising agency address book November 1952 includes Ashley Havinden

W.S. Crawford Crawfords advertising agency address book November 1952 includes Ashley Havinden

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Cintique. The world’s most comfortable chairs and settees… mid century brochure, undated presumed to be 1960s

Cintique. The world’s most comfortable chairs and settees… mid century brochure, undated presumed to be 1960s

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Printing Review No 37, Winter 1956/7 | Printing in the Netherlands | Charles Rosner

Printing Review No 37, Winter 1956/7 | Printing in the Netherlands | Charles Rosner

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AD – An Intimate Journal for Art Directors | June–July 1940, Vol 6, issue 5 | Maurice Freed

AD – An Intimate Journal for Art Directors | June–July 1940, Vol 6, issue 5 | Maurice Freed

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AD – An Intimate Journal for Art Directors | Feb-Mar 1941, Vol VII, No 3 | Paul Rand

AD – An Intimate Journal for Art Directors | Feb-Mar 1941, Vol VII, No 3 | Paul Rand

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The Practical Photographer November 1904 No. 14 ed. Rev. F.C. Lambert | Hodder and Stoughton, 1904

The Practical Photographer November 1904 No. 14 ed. Rev. F.C. Lambert | Hodder and Stoughton, 1904

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Designing Women. Women working in advertising and publicity from the 1920s to the 1960s by Ruth Artmonsky, Artmonsky Arts, 2012

Designing Women. Women working in advertising and publicity from the 1920s to the 1960s by Ruth Artmonsky, Artmonsky Arts, 2012

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The Intertype Cheltonian Family | Advertising type face specimen booklet, 1930s?

The Intertype Cheltonian Family | Advertising type face specimen booklet, 1930s?

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Promotional leaflet for Emigre Magazine / Fonts | dated 1990

Promotional leaflet for Emigre Magazine / Fonts | dated 1990

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The Monotype Recorder – Advertising journal, July to October 1928 | Issue no 226

The Monotype Recorder – Advertising journal, July to October 1928 | Issue no 226

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Leaflet – Entertaining à la Carte | Fortnum & Mason | Peyton Skipwith | Mainstone Press, 2007

Leaflet – Entertaining à la Carte | Fortnum & Mason | Peyton Skipwith | Mainstone Press, 2007

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Ark 15 Journal of The Royal College of Art Autumn 1955 issue

Ark 15 Journal of The Royal College of Art Autumn 1955 issue

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Setting Up Home with Bill & Betty | Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Oxford House, 1952 Roger Nicholson cover

Setting Up Home with Bill & Betty | Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Oxford House, 1952 Roger Nicholson cover

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Onyx type specimen brochure | American Type Founders | Design by Gerry Powell, 1937

Onyx type specimen brochure | American Type Founders | Design by Gerry Powell, 1937

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