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Poster for screening of film 'Mystery Train' by the Film Club at the Barnes Lecture Theatre. Screening date is Thursday 12 Apr, year unknown but believed to be from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Poster for screening of film 'Mystery Train' by the Film Club at the Barnes Lecture Theatre. Screening date is Thursday 12 Apr, year unknown but believed to be from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Poster for screening of film 'Eraserhead' at the Barnes Lecture Theatre. Screening date is Thursday 08 Feb, year unknown but believed to be from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Poster for 'Exhibition Celebrating 70 Years Fashion Show 1947-2017', Reid Building, Glasgow, 21 Mar 2017-22 Mar 2017. The exhibition celebrated 70 years of fashion shows at The Glasgow School of Art, and the fashion show that year was held whilst the exhibition was showing. The images on the poster are from the Archives & Collections.

Poster for fashion show 'Celebrating 70 Years Fashion Show 1947-2017', The Art School, Glasgow, 21 Mar 2017-22 Mar 2017. The fashion show in 2017 celebrated 70 years of fashion shows at The Glasgow School of Art, and was held whilst an exhibition of the same name was showing. The image on the poster is from the Archives & Collections.

Poster for the 2014 Fashion Show at The Glasgow School of Art, held on 4 Mar 2014 and 5 Mar 2014.

Poster for the 2014 Fashion Show at The Glasgow School of Art, held on 4 Mar 2014 and 5 Mar 2014.

Poster for The Glasgow Masters Series exhibition with contributions from GSA Archives, at 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, 05 Oct 2013-13 Oct 2013

This poster for a major exhibition of painting, decorative and applied art by the Glasgow Girls from 1890 to 1930 uses an Eleanor Allen Moore painting as the background. It was a touring exhibition by the Kirkcudbright 2000 group. Over 100 exhibits were provided by the three main Scottish collections of 'Glasgow Girls' work - Glasgow Museums, The Glasgow School of Art and the Hunterian Gallery of the University of Glasgow, and the exhibition ran from 19th Nov to 20th Dec 2010. Artists and makers represented included Annie French, Margaret Gilmour, Norah Neilson Gray, Jessie M. King, Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Jessie Newbery and many others. Several private individuals also lent significant works, many of which had never been viewed in public before. The exhibition was curated by Liz Arthur, formerly a Glasgow Museums curator, who was involved in the last major exhibition on the 'Glasgow Girls' in Glasgow 1990. She also wrote a book to co-incide with this exhibition: 'Glasgow Girls : Artists and Designers 1890-1930' (Alba Printers Ltd, 2010). The exhibition was accompanied by a series of Lunchtime Lectures.

The following additional information was provided by the creator in September 2020:

"During my third year as a Graphic Design student, my fellow student Patrick Macklin who was studying Interior Design approached me with a request for technical help in producing a poster for the “Glasgow Girls” exhibition which he had been asked to produce. As this was the era of pre-digital, creating a poster for printing was quite a specialist task and was really the domain of Graphic Designers.

The artwork began by sourcing an archive image of historical female students in Glasgow School of Art in the Mackintosh era that could be scaled up to the finished size and retain a high enough visual quality. Because the concept that we decided on would heavily reference Mackintosh, I decided to use his signature violet colour and chose the exact colour from a pantone chart, that is so heavily associated with Mackintosh to create a duotone of the archival photograph.

Once I established the finished size of the poster, I drew by hand the printers marks that would establish cropping, registration of the separated colours and alignment of the layers on a sheet of heavy CS10 board (I think I did not eat for a couple of days to afford that board!).

The next stage was to create an area that would convey the information that the poster would communicate to the viewer. As this was the pre-digital era, I had to work out all the line lengths and the subsequent point sizes and weights required for the information block at the foot of the poster using type catalogues, rulers and casting off rulers. Once this was established, I requested to the operator of the GSA’s linotype photosetting machines to print out a galley proof of the type, once I was happy with the layout and weights of the type. I chose the font from the limited range that was available to the operator, as these fonts were mastered on glass slides that would be inserted into the linotype machine and were very expensive and therefore very limited in range. I settled on Book Antiqua as it was one of the least boring of the serif font choices and was also similar to the font used by Prefab Sprout in there “Swoon” album which I had nearly worn out the grooves of by that time!

I then used traditional art materials such as Letraset, drafting film, rubalith, rotring rapidograph pens and scalpels to create the text area. I hand drafted the dashed stroke around the border of the text area to invoke Mackintosh’s distinct use of these in his work. To create harmony and visual balance, I also hand cut a further two perfect squares using a half tone letraset dot matrix on a further layer to fill the void at either end of the “Girls” line of text to make a block so reminiscent of the Japanese wood cut influence in Mackintosh’s typography without being too literal.

It was really difficult in those days to source “camera ready” artwork for the sponsors logos, as companies in those days regarded any activity outside official Design Studios with the utmost suspicion. Eventually we managed to source these and I scaled them to the correct size using an Agfa Repromaster copy camera and the dark room. All these elements were then pasted on to the CS10 backboard or drafting film layers with measurement and precision using low tack spray mount.

The finished artwork was then sent to the Printer to be screen printed. I also supplied the pantone ink numbers they were to use for the screen printing in a list.

I was lucky enough to receive (as payment for my services) a “free” copy of the poster for my portfolio which I still have today!"

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 Robert Heatherington has designed a poster for the Carl Dreygar film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. Heatherington has created the poster using screen print techniques.

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 Emily Harding has designed a poster for the John Schlesinger film 'Billy Liar'. Harding has created the poster using screen printing techniques.

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 Grace Gallacher has designed a poster for the Adam Curtis documentary 'Century of the Self: Happiness Machines'. The poster has been created using screen printing techniques.

The poster advertises GSA Fashion Show that was held in the Vic Bar from the 4th-5th March 2008, with tickets priced at £7.50 and £5.50 for concessions. There were two shows held at 7pm and 9pm.

Long exposure photograph of Glasgow street scene with light trails.

This poster advertised the 2005 Glasgow School Of Art Fashion show. The event was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre on The Glasgow School Of Art campus with performances running daily from the 1st to the 5th of March. Tickets for the event were priced at £5 with a discounted offer of £3 for concessions.

This poster advertised a lecture given by well known artist David Hockney which was held in the Haldane building at The Glasgow School Of Art on Thursday the 24th of February.

A collection of photographs and negatives taken by George Oliver dating from 1948-1990 (apart from two dated c1897). George arranged his photographs into folders by approximate subject matter and gave each folder a title. This has been reflected in the catalogue with the folder titles in the catalogue being the exact titles George used. The folders have been arranged by subject matter where possible. There are exceptions to the above. Folders DC 066/2/20 and DC 066/2/86 have not been given a title by George and have been catalogued as 'Untitled'. There are exceptions to this with DC 066/2/78 containing photographs taken by Cordelia Oliver as they date from after George's death. As a result of the Mackintosh Building fire in 2014, folders DC 066/2/87, DC 066/2/88 and DC 066/2/89 contain photographs that have been rehoused since their deposit and are likely to have been taken out of other folders. It is not clear from which folders these photographs came originally, so they have been catalogued separately with their titles reflecting the subject matter of the photographs they contain.

This poster advertised an exhibition of photographic prints by photographer Andy Stark, who is currently the head of photography in the communication design department at The Glasgow School Of Art. The exhibition was held in the Podium Gallery in the Bourdon Building at The Glasgow School Of Art between the 6th and the 27th of October 2003. The poster was designed by Vanilla Design.

This poster advertised The Glasgow School Of Art's annual degree show. The exhibition was held on The Glasgow School Of Art campus as well as in the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Tramway which are local arts centres. The 2003 degree show was sponsored by McGrigor Donald, Hoegaarden Beer, the MacFarlane Group and the Gordon Yuill Company. The image used in the poster is by Raul Ortega and the poster was designed by Inlapland.

This poster advertised an exhibition of work by second year printmaking students from The Glasgow School Of Art. The exhibition was held in the Market Gallery on Duke Street in Glasgow and ran from the 1st to the 8th of March. It was sponsored by the Reidvale Housing Association.

This poster advertised an exhibition showing a number of films by graduates of The Glasgow School Of Art in 2002 as well as a lecture by Alan Currall who was a lecturer in electronic media at the school. The event was held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts which is an arts centre close to The Glasgow School Of Art campus. Exhibitors included Natalie McFadyen, James Hodgson, Ruth Legg, Kate Drummond - Brassington, Mark Melvin, Will Holt, Michelle Daniels, Ruth Davies, John Barrington, Henry Coombes, Nicola Godsal, Mari Lagerquist, Martin Craig, Hannah Palmer, Dan Miller, Grethe Forsstrom, Laura Marshall, Kate Burton and Astrid Kruse Jensen.

This poster advertised an exhibition showing a number of films by graduates of The Glasgow School Of Art in 2002 as well as a lecture by Alan Currall who was a lecturer in electronic media at the school. The event was held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts which is an arts centre close to The Glasgow School Of Art campus. Exhibitors included Natalie McFadyen, James Hodgson, Ruth Legg, Kate Drummond - Brassington, Mark Melvin, Will Holt, Michelle Daniels, Ruth Davies, John Barrington, Henry Coombes, Nicola Godsal, Mari Lagerquist, Martin Craig, Hannah Palmer, Dan Miller, Grethe Forsstrom, Laura Marshall, Kate Burton and Astrid Kruse Jensen.

This poster advertised The Glasgow School Of Art's annual degree show which showcased the work of graduating students in 2002. Undergraduate students exhibited on campus while the Masters of Fine Art students exhibited at local arts centre Tramway. The exhibition ran from the 22nd to the 29th of June and had a number of sponsors including Ziper Beer, McGrigor Donald, Gordon Yuill and Company, BD-Tank and the Centre for Contemporary Arts.

This poster advertised The Glasgow School Of Art's annual degree show which showcased the work of graduating students in 2001. Undergraduate students exhibited in the Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School Of Art while the Masters of Fine Art students exhibited in Tramway, a local arts centre. The degree show ran from the 23rd to the 30th of June 2001 and was sponsored by Beat 106 radio station.

This poster appears to advertise a lecture and discussion by Dendler, Dendler and Dunlop which took place on Wednesday the 9th of December. The poster is annotated with ‘Sandy Prentice processed by Chuck Mitchell’.

Poster for screening of film 'Orlando', by Sally Potter in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre. Screening date is 08 Mar, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century.

One third section of a poster advertising a series of films that were shown in The Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art. Screening were documentaries about artists including Mackintosh, Rousseau, Klee, McLaren, Giacometti, Hamilton, Paolozzi, Jones, Kitaj, Bosch and Spencer as well as a film entitled 'A Short Vision'. This section screenprinted in CMYK inks using both drawn elements and half dot images.

This poster is believed to advertise a lecture by Theodore Roszak entitled 'Conscience and Consciousness in the Art of Mackintosh'. It is believed to have been designed and made by Sandy Prentice and Chuck Mitchell.

This poster advertised a lecture given by BBC film maker Tom Cotter. The lecture was held in the Newbery staff lounge in the Newbery Tower at The Glasgow School Of Art on Wednesday the 25th of October. The poster also advertised a film competition that would take place during the art school's activities week.

This poster is believed to advertise a screening of James Scott's 1971 documentary The Great Ice Cream Robbery which was held in the Haldane Building on Friday the 5th of November. The documentary featured Claes Oldenberg and Rene Margritte and was part of International Art Films.

Unfortunately, there is no contextual information regarding this poster.

This poster advertised one of the masters of design end of year degree shows. The exhibition was held in the Mackintosh Building on The Glasgow School Of Art campus.

This poster advertised a Christmas dance arranged by the drawing and painting department, the title of which was "Meet the Mob". Tickets were priced at £3.50 and the evening included a big band and a buffet.

This poster advertised the opening times of The Glasgow School Of Art student union, which is often referred to as The Vic Bar. The bar continues to be a large part of The Glasgow School Of Art community with a number of club nights, concerts and exhibitions being held there. The poster reads: "In the beginning there was darkness, and much dryness of many throats. Until a voice from the void said let there be cheap drink and the sound of many feet bopping it out on the floor. It gave us seven weeks to accomplish this task. Out from the depths came the chosen ones who stripped and screwed until on the seventh week came!!! A place of greatness. The hip, the hop, the thee place to be THE VIC. Hours of boozing service 11am - 2.30pm, 5pm - 11pm, with a licence to kill at the weekends - till 2.00am."