Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious: Design (Design Series) - Hardcover

Brian Webb; Peyton Skipwith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851495002 ISBN 13: 9781851495009

Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

An excellent introduction to the work of two British designers Edward Bawden (1903-1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). This fascinating book illustrates every aspect of their creativity, featuring designs for wallpaper, posters, book jackets, trade cards and Wedgwood ceramics, to name but a few. "Design" opens with an informed and engaging essay by Peyton Skipwith, who, from the late 1960s, acted as Edward Bawden's principal dealer. Bawden and Ravilious both attended the Design School of the Royal College of Art. It was here that they met and started to experiment with print-making - marking the beginning of an extremely creative but tragically short-lived friendship. Ravilious was killed at the age of thirty-nine in an air-sea rescue mission during the Second World War; and Edward Bawden survived him by forty-six years. "Design" contains over 150 illustrations, many from original artworks, and work not before reproduced. With descriptions by Brian Webb and an introductory essay by Peyton Skipwith, the "Design" Series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: 'A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb'.

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About the Author

Brian Webb is a designer and visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London. He has lectured, designed and produced several books on the works of Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden including For Shop Use Only, Submarine Dream and Design, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravillious a centenary exhibition curated by Brian Webb. Peyton Skipwith is Edward Bawden's Literary Executor. He is an independent art consultant, having recently retired as a director of The Fine Art Society after forty-four years, during which time he organised many exhibtions covering most aspects of British fine and decorative arts of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Tribute to Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious in Context and Britain Between the Wars. He is a writer and critic, contributing regularly to various publications including, Apollo, The Burlington and The Literary Review, as well as being a Trustee of the North West Essex Art Collection and Honorary Curator of the Art Workers Guild.

Edition details

• Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851495002
• ISBN 13: 9781851495009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64