We paid a visit last night to the second stop on GF Smith’s 111yr Exhibition tour. On display was a selection of paper sample books from each decade of the companies history, with the 60’s generally considered the winner and the 90’s picking up the official FFF wooden spoon.
On display was work from designers such as Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Bill McKay and SEA Design. Although it was the progression and history of the company – which rep Paul Scharf done an excellent job of telling – over any one piece of work which made the project interesting for us.
The tour is due to continue at Universities throughout the UK over the next few months, could do worse than pay a visit.
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29th Jan 2010
2:36 pm
Agreed Jack, good exhibition with some fantastic samples dating right back to the first types of printing. Really nice progression of styles and methods and the story of GF Smith was very well told by Mr Scharf. Nice free poster too and WITH tubes! (Other exhibitions/talks take note)
Simon
4th Feb 2010
11:16 pm
Is there any where we can find out the dates/location of this Exhibition tour, would love to see it, especially as I recieved a lovely sample book from GF Smith just this morning!!
LukeTonge
15th Feb 2010
3:05 pm
Heading to Notts to see this on the 22nd – hope they’ve got some posters left!
Claire Hartley
16th Feb 2010
5:02 pm
Will Birmingham be on touring list do you know Luke?
LukeTonge
23rd Feb 2010
1:40 pm
B’ham not currently on the list, it’s in Leicester later this week, hopefully London at some point and also over to N.Ireland so I’m told.
Went and saw this last night in Nottingham – loving some of the 70’s and 80’s pieces, the 60’s was certainly lovely and the 90’s best to be skipped over…