Tom Eckersley
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Cheap Jack Flash
Issue 60, Summer 2006
Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh…
Social vision
Issue 52, Summer 2004
RoSPA’s Second World War safety posters challenge orthodox views of British Modernism
A world of shape and flat colour
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
The recent exhibition of Tom Eckersley’s posters was the most comprehensive…
Recent blog posts by Tom Eckersley
Books of seaside revelations
3 June 2020
Guidebooks have enticed visitors to resorts since the nineteenth century. The third in Justin Burns’s series about coastal graphic design in the UK
For decades, the guidebook has navigated visitors through the bright lights of the seaside, showcasing the attractions and architectural splendour of the British coast, writes Justin Burns.
Warning cries
14 January 2016
Paul Rennie casts new light on RoSPA’s safety posters. Review of Safety First by Clare Walters
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) employed many of the best designers of the twentieth century to make its safety posters.
AK and A23D on press
18 September 2014
Two 21st-century letterpress projects breathe new life into this arcane, antiquated but much-loved method of mark-making
The LDF’s opening graphic weekend featured plenty of stimulating events and fascinating displays, with workshops, movies (Lost Highway), demonstrations, talks (Paula Scher, Irma Boom), David David’s Carousel Wall in the tunnel entrance, and Barber & Osgerby’s vertiginous Double Space – huge rotating mirrors – in the Raphael Gallery, writes John L Walters.