Agam Lifshitz Zaritzsky, poster, 1969

Richard Hollis:

Work for the Whitechapel Art Gallery began for the Director, Mark Glazebrook. Hollis introduced the German typeface Block, roughly contemporary with the original Gallery building. Only slowly did a coherent style emerge under a later Director, Nicholas Serota.

The majority of posters were A3 and mailed with newssheets and invitation cards. The type was set so that as far as possible it was not interrupted by folds, and a new part of the message appeared as the sheet was opened out.

Client: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Date: 1970–1989

Agam Lifshitz Zaritzsky, catalogue, 1970

Mario Merz

David Bomberg

Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti – Exhibition guide, catalogue and poster, 1982

“The exhibition guide and poster were both printed using red and green: overprinted these gave a black, and accounts for the slightly strange look of the off-black reproductions. The catalogue was one of the last of the letterpress printing era.”

Designed in 1958, according to robertbrownjohn.com. Art direction by Charles E. Murphy. Released in 1962, according to Discogs. Read more about this custom typeface by Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar in the Electric Circus use.