Synopses & Reviews
What does a magazineandrsquo;s look and feel say about it? Sometimes more than its written content. Starting with the advent of two periodicalsandmdash;Punch in 1841 and the Illustrated London News a year laterandmdash;this groundbreaking study investigates the design history of British magazines over the past 170 years, right up to thebeginnings of digital distribution. This pioneering survey of a still-developing story encompasses graphic design, typography, photography, and innovative print technology, and explores why magazines have looked how they do and how they have changed over time. The wealth of superb illustrations is drawn from the VandAandrsquo;sNational Art Libraryandrsquo;s unparalleled archive of periodicals.
Synopsis
This visually stunning book, created for a major VandA exhibition, celebrates the best of British design from 1948 to today. Essays by leading curators as well as pieces by key designersand#8212;including Peter Saville, Barbara Hulanicki, Paul Smith, and Tom Dixonand#8212;build a comprehensive survey of more than 400 of the finest examples of fashion and textiles, furniture, ceramics and glass, theater design, graphics, photography, architecture, and fine art and sculpture from the period. From works commissioned for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to the globally influential, and very British, counterculture, included here are works created for the 1960s boutiques of Mary Quant and Ossie Clark through the club cultures of punk, the new Romantics, and rave.
About the Author
Christopher Breward is the head of research at the VandA and a co-curator of the exhibition. Ghislaine Wood is a curator specializing in 20th-century art and design in the Research Department at the VandA.