Skill - British Craftsmanship - a special Contact Book, 1949
The front cover of a special issue of "Contact" from 1949 and showing the final testing of a lens for accuracy at the Leicester works of Taylor Hobson, a company noted then for the high quality of their photographic and optical equipment and who are still in business today. Taken from a photograph in the test sadly no designer is given for this front cover.
In post-war Britain there was an outpouring of journalism on the 'new' world that could be built in amongst the almost crushing austerity that the country faced. One of the various publications that fed into this mood was "Contact" that was issued in almost magazine form and with each issue focussing on a specific topic. This, from May 1949, was issued to coincide with the British Industries Fair of that year and was on craftsmanship. The names associated with this semi-book are quite the role call of the time; even the forwords are by Herbert Morrison, Harold Wilson, Oliver Lyttelton and Harold Macmillan, names that spanned both Government and Opposition politics.
Skill - British Craftsmanship - a special Contact Book, 1949
The front cover of a special issue of "Contact" from 1949 and showing the final testing of a lens for accuracy at the Leicester works of Taylor Hobson, a company noted then for the high quality of their photographic and optical equipment and who are still in business today. Taken from a photograph in the test sadly no designer is given for this front cover.
In post-war Britain there was an outpouring of journalism on the 'new' world that could be built in amongst the almost crushing austerity that the country faced. One of the various publications that fed into this mood was "Contact" that was issued in almost magazine form and with each issue focussing on a specific topic. This, from May 1949, was issued to coincide with the British Industries Fair of that year and was on craftsmanship. The names associated with this semi-book are quite the role call of the time; even the forwords are by Herbert Morrison, Harold Wilson, Oliver Lyttelton and Harold Macmillan, names that spanned both Government and Opposition politics.