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Talk: The Design is in the Post - Artists and the GPO

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Designers and authors Brian Webb and Peyton Skipworth discuss how artists have shaped the GPO's image.

What
  • Talk
When May 20, 2010
from 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Where The Phoenix Centre
Contact Email
Contact Phone 020 7239 2570
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General Post Office logo.The GPO, in the decades around the middle of the 20th Century, commissioned many now well known artists who were at the beginning of their careers, including Barnett Freedman, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravillious. These and many others designed posters, postage stamps and publications.

Event details

 Talk: The Design is in the Post - Artists and the GPO

Price

Free
Pre-booking required?

Booking required.  Please call 020 7239 2570 or email info@postalheritage.org.uk to book
Venue

The talk will take place in The Phoenix Centre, a short walk up Phoenix Place from The British Postal Museum & Archive

Suitable for?

Anyone with an interest in design or postal history.

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