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** Collections of the Month: Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters from 1930 to 1960 **
University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre, in collaboration with The British Postal Museum and Archive, presents 'Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters from 1930 to 1960'. The exhibition at the Well Gallery - and on the Archives Hub website - focuses on a period when the Post Office was at the cutting edge of poster design and mass communication. It explores how the GPO translated, often complex, messages to the public in order to educate them about the services offered, by using text, image, and colour.
<http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/postofficeposters.shtml>
** Latest additions **
New contributors: the Scottish Poetry Library, the Women's Art Library (MAKE), and the British Postal Museum & Archive.
Additional descriptions from University of the Arts London, the University of East Anglia, and the National Co-operative Archive.
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These include descriptions for the papers of writer and poet Edwin Morgan (born 1920); papers of graphic designer John Westwood (born 1919); papers of literary journalist and critic Lorna Sage (1943-2001); the MAKE Resource collection of periodicals relating to art and women artists; original artwork for Post Office posters, leaflets, and telegrams; and the records of Crumpsall Biscuit Works (CWS).
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