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Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland Design (arts) With digital objects
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Poster for the Master of Design degree show entitled 'Formal Facts: Form Follows Function'

This poster advertised The Glasgow School Of Art Master of Design degree show in 1985. The exhibition ran from the 7th to the 13th of December and was held in the Mackintosh Building on The Glasgow School Of Art campus. Exhibitors included Willie Aitken, Janice Kirkpatrick, Adele Patrick, Heather McMurchie, Gary Morgan and Iain Roberts. Janice Kirkpatrick went on to found Glasgow based design consultancy Graven Images.

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Poster for the sculpture degree show

This poster advertised the work of graduating sculpture students that were part of one of The Glasgow School Of Art's degree shows in the late 20th century. The exhibition was held in the Haldane building on The Glasgow School Of Art campus and ran from the 13th to the 20th of June.

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Poster for an exhibition of Jewellery and Silversmithing work shown in New York

This poster advertises an exhibition of work done by the Jewellery and Silversmithing department at The Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition was held in the Aaron Faber Gallery in New York City and ran from the 8th of September to the 1st of October 1994. It was organised with the help of the Taffners, a family based in New York who donated money to The Glasgow School Of Art for a number of years.

Murray, Jimmy

Poster for staff and student event entitled 'A Brew Up For Bob Mitchell In The Staff Lounge'

This poster advertised an event held in the staff lounge at The Glasgow School Of Art in honour of maintenance staff member Bob Mitchell. The poster features a caricature of Bob Mitchell illustrated by Danny Ferguson who was a lecturer at The Glasgow School Of Art. Although his main duty was maintaining the school's boiler system, Mitchell was also a reliable handy man. He is credited for constructing huge billboards which were errected in front of The Glasgow School Of Art's Newbery Tower to advertise events happening during Activities Week. These various talks and events were advertised on large scale posters, many of which can now be found in The Glasgow School Of Art's poster collection.

Ferguson, Danny

Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Design Work '85'

This poster advertised an exhibition of work by both past and present students from the School of Design and the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School Of Art. It features a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith who was a prominent economist during this period. He stated "It is on the artistic not less than on the engineering and scientific excellence that economic security and economic progress now depend," The exhibition was held between Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Mackintosh Museum at The Glasgow School Of Art. It ran from the 9th of February to the 1st of March 1985.

Grant, Christopher

Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Points of Departure'

This poster advertised an exhibition associated with Scotrail and The Glasgow School Of Art Enterprises. It featured work created on location at railways across Scotland by visual communications students at The Glasgow School Of Art and was organised to celebrate the Railtracks Station Regeneration project. The poster was designed by Patrick Macklin who later became the head of Interior Design at The Glasgow School Of Art.

Macklin, Patrick

Poster for an exhibition of embroidery work from 1894 to 1920

This poster, designed by Pat MacKenzie, advertised an exhibition of embroidery examples from 1894 to 1920. The exhibition was held between The Glasgow School Of Art's Mackintosh Museum and Kelvingrove Museum from the 6th of June to the 17th of August 1980. The image used on the front of the poster is an embroidery piece by Ann Macbeth who became the head of needlework and embroidery at The Glasgow School of Art in 1909, and is heavily associated with the "Glasgow Style".

Mackenzie, Pat

Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Assorted: A Show Of Mixed Design Disciplines'

This poster advertised an exhibition showcasing a number of design disciplines from the Masters in Design course. This exhibition was first shown in Princes Square in Glasgow city centre before travelling to the Coningsby Gallery in London. The exhibition was sponsored by McVitie's biscuits and The Jacob's Bakery Ltd.

Fitzpatrick, Janice

Poster for an exhibition of work by postgraduate fine art students

This poster is one of an edition of 100 posters advertising an exhibition which showcased the work of graduating postgraduate fine art students from The Glasgow School Of Art in 1987. The exhibition was held in the Mackintosh Building from the 13th to the 18th of June. Exhibitors included: - Carolyn Angus - Jean Baird - Stephen Beddoe - Di Blenkinsop - Stephen Conroy - Ashley Cook - Lorraine Cotterell - Peter Quinn - Fiona Robertson - Anne Russell - Andrew J Scott - Lucinda Wilkinson - Lorraine R. Turley Ashley Cook designed and printed the poster. Fiona Robertson went on to work as head of the fourth year painting and printmaking course at The Glasgow School Of Art.

Cook, Ashley

Poster for an exhibition of work by postgraduate fine art students

This poster advertised an exhibition which showcased the work of graduating postgraduate fine art students from 1989. Exhibitors included: Suzanne Applefold, Reuben Kench, Raymond Lee, John Shankie and Zandra Thomson. The exhibition was held in The Glasgow School Of Art's Mackintosh Building from the 17th to the 22nd of June 1989. The poster was designed at The Glasgow School Of Art and features a photograph which was taken by David Kenmillshank.

David J Clark Ltd

Poster for a Centenary Exhibition of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

This poster advertised an exhibition marking the centenary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's birth. The show itself was held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and was open to the public from the 30th of October to 5th of December 1968. The exhibition was sponsored by the Edinburgh Festival Society and arranged by the Scottish Arts Council.

David J Clark Ltd

Poster for a film screening of 'Wisconsin Death Trip'

This poster is part of a course project organised by the Visual Communications department. The brief for the project required students to design a poster for a particular film they had been assigned. In this example, student Oliver Pitt has designed a poster for the James Marsh film 'Wisconsin Death Trip'. The poster has been created using screen printing techniques.

Pitt, Oliver

Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Mackintosh in Context: the European Connection'

This poster, which is orange in colour, advertised an exhibition of work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which was held in the Mackintosh Building, Room 31, on the Glasgow School of Art campus. The show focused on 'Mackintosh in Context: the European Connection', running from the 7th of July until the 18th of August 1990. The exhibition was sponsored by Black Bottle Scotch Whisky.

Peffer, Karen

Poster for a film screening of 'Slacker'

This poster is part of a course project organised by the Visual Communications department. The brief for the project required students to design a poster for a particular film they had been assigned. In this example, student Tu Lang has designed a poster for the Richard Linklater film Slacker. Lang used photo-lithography techniques to create the poster.

Lang, Tu

Poster for a symposium entitled 'The Arts'

This poster advertised a symposium given by speakers who were either artists or people associated with film and television. Speakers included Scottish film and television actor Bill Patterson, painter Clive Sutton, Scottish film maker Bill Forsyth, film and television director Joe McGrath and film director Peter MacDougall. The poster is annotated on the reverse with "Colin Wilson".

Wilson, Colin

Poster for display 'Hypothesis: Forms of regeneration on the Clyde', Glasgow

Poster for display of final year projects from the Mackintosh School of Architecture 'Hypothesis: Forms of regeneration on the Clyde', Merchant City, Glasgow, 29 Nov 2002-01 Dec 2002. The display features the work of students Andres, Chow, Innes, Logan, Lugar-Mawson, Nowak, O'Hagan, Radhakrishnan, Shepherd, Teoh and Urquhart (only surnames given).

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Poster for Degree Show 2000

Poster for Degree Show 2000. The poster features text "Painting is for resistance fighters, an unaligned mob of realists, visionaries, zealots, schemers and gamblers alongside the usual sprinkling of opportunists, camp followers and those hapless innocents who don't quite know themselves why they're there.". The degree show was held on 23 Jun 2000-30 Jun 2000.

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Poster for 'An Ephemeral Art - Installation by Tamara Krikorian', Glasgow

Poster for 'An Ephemeral Art - Installation by Tamara Krikorian', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Exhibition dates were 20 Apr 1979-28 Apr 1979, with a showing of video tapes on 20 Apr 1979 and a lecture on 25 Apr 1979.

Note: There is a spelling error in one of the instances of the artist's surname on the poster. The correct spelling is "Krikorian".

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Poster for exhibition "Glasgow Society of Lady Artists' Club Exhibition of Founder Members and Exhibitors 1882 c. 1920'', Glasgow

Poster for exhibition 'Glasgow Society of Lady Artists' Club Exhibition of Founder Members and Exhibitors 1882 c. 1920', 10 Jun 1968-29 Jun 1968. The exhibition was held with the assistance of the Scottish Arts Council. The venue is not explicitly stated but is believed to be Glasgow.

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Anderson, Agnes Violet

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