17 graphic designers London : Balding + Mansell : London : 1963 : Colin Forbes : London Heathrow Airport third terminal lettering : 2
Balding & Mansell were a long established printing company founded in 1892 and based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. In 1963 they published a book entitled 17 graphic designers [in] London that looks at the work of some of the important contemporary British graphic designers. They were; Dennis Baily, Derek Birdsall, George Daulby, George Mayhew, Peter Wildbur, Ian Bradbery, David Collins, Bob Gill, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Sydney King, Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert, Romek Marber, John Sewell, Barry Trengrove and Tom Wolsey. The book devotes four pages or so to each designer and after a brief resumé looks at some of the commercial work they have undertaken for a wide range of clients. The work includes lettering and typefaces, publicity, advertising, signs and corporate identities.
Several pages are devoted to the work of Colin Forbes of Fletcher/Forbes/Gill and who was Consulatnt Art Director for Pirelli UK. He also designed the typeface/lettering used for the "number three passenger building" at London's Heathrow Airport and this appears to have followed on from Matthew Carter's lettering that was used on earlier phases of Heathrow Airport's terminal buildings development under Frederick Gibberd, Consultant Architect. That said, clarification would be gratefully received! Terminal 3 was opened as the Oceanic Terminal on 13 November 1961.
17 graphic designers London : Balding + Mansell : London : 1963 : Colin Forbes : London Heathrow Airport third terminal lettering : 2
Balding & Mansell were a long established printing company founded in 1892 and based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. In 1963 they published a book entitled 17 graphic designers [in] London that looks at the work of some of the important contemporary British graphic designers. They were; Dennis Baily, Derek Birdsall, George Daulby, George Mayhew, Peter Wildbur, Ian Bradbery, David Collins, Bob Gill, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Sydney King, Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert, Romek Marber, John Sewell, Barry Trengrove and Tom Wolsey. The book devotes four pages or so to each designer and after a brief resumé looks at some of the commercial work they have undertaken for a wide range of clients. The work includes lettering and typefaces, publicity, advertising, signs and corporate identities.
Several pages are devoted to the work of Colin Forbes of Fletcher/Forbes/Gill and who was Consulatnt Art Director for Pirelli UK. He also designed the typeface/lettering used for the "number three passenger building" at London's Heathrow Airport and this appears to have followed on from Matthew Carter's lettering that was used on earlier phases of Heathrow Airport's terminal buildings development under Frederick Gibberd, Consultant Architect. That said, clarification would be gratefully received! Terminal 3 was opened as the Oceanic Terminal on 13 November 1961.