Author: Ruth Artmonsky

Designers come in all shapes and sizes and apply their talents to an enormous range of things, from books to refrigerators to clothes to stage scen...

F.H.K Henrion was one of a distinguished group of graphic designers - refugees from Europe just prior to World War II, who brought cutting-edge con...

Jan Le Witt and George Him were a comparative rarity, a graphic design duo; signing their work as 'Lewitt-Him' they brought an innovative use of co...

From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much o...

Crusaders for art and design were men and women who were prepared to give their energy, talents, and oftimes money, to encourage young artists and ...

From the latter part of the 19th century there was a fever of experiment resulting in the development of what were to become brand-named beauty pro...

"Anyone reading this who aspires to chronicle a segment of 20th-century Western design must have Artmonsky‘s modest but essential library of books....

The focus of the plethora of books on British textiles has largely been on their design and designers; relatively little has been written on the ma...

Edward McKnight Kauffer, although an American, is considered one of the most important graphic designers in Britain in the first half of the 20th c...

The inter-war years saw a revival of interest in print, not merely as a technical means of reproduction but aesthetically as a medium for communica...

Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford...

The first comprehensive book on the life and work of Tom Purvis, one of the most successful British commercial artists of the inter-war years, reme...

Packaging is something of a hot topic at the moment, but in our eagerness to get rid of as much of it as possible we need to be careful not to thro...

A survey by Nicklaus Pevsner in the 1930s estimated that some 80-90% of manufactured goods in England were shoddy and poorly designed. When it ca...

Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was one of twentieth century Britain's most innovative graphic designers. Book illustrator, wallpaper, textile and poster...