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This poster is for an exhibition of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's lost furniture from the Glasgow School of Art in association with the Glasgow Herald. The poster features Miss Kate Cranston's bedroom suite, which Mackintosh designed in 1904.

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 depicts a portrait of the artist with pink and blue fonts on a white background. It advertises a touring exhibition of the work of Jessie M. King, who is known for her book illustrations and paintings which are very much associated with the Glasgow Style. Known as one of the Glasgow Girls, the exhibition of King's work in 1979 marked the 20th anniversary of her death and was first shown at the Tolbooth Art Centre on Hill Street, Kirkcudbright from 4th June to 18th July. Later that same year, the exhibition was held at the Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building from 27th July to 3rd September. The exhibition itself was sponsored by the Robertson Trust, The N.S. Macfarlane Trust and the Glasgow School of Art Enterprises.

This poster advertised a symposium lecture that looked at the positive and negative aspects of living and working in Glasgow. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art on the 20th of February 1976.

This poster advertised a lecture given by the artist Johnny Ross which was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster was possibly designed by Jimmy Cosgrove who was the previous head of textiles at the school.

This poster showing an image of a Mackintosh chair advertised an exhibition of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Museum of Applied Arts in Helsinki from 10th December 1982 to 16th January 1983.

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 Mi Lin has designed a poster for the Jean Luc-Godard film Vivre Sa Vie. Lin has used screen printing techniques to create this poster.

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.

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 Kate Costigan has designed a poster for the Robert Day film 'The Rebel'. To create this poster Costigan used screenprinting 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 Kim Diamond has designed a poster for Jack Clayton's 1967 film 'Our Mother's House'. Diamond has used screenprinting and collage techniques to create the poster.

'Do you have Future Vision?' A poster promoting the MDes in Design Innovation.

A poster promoting the MSc in Medical Visualisation.

A photograph collage showing the making of a ceramic cast in the Ceramics Department of the GSA. The images are believed to show visiting tutor Sandor Dobany and GSA students making mosaic roundels for Clackmannanshire Council.

Source: https://www.clacks.gov.uk/council/press/?release=1155

A poster promoting the MDes in Animation.

A poster advertising the Open Day in 2011, featuring an image of an elephant.

One of three posters for the Big Screen Film Festival at Glasgow School of Art in June 2012.

Fashion Show poster (in aid of War on Want) for March 1963

Poster advertising a film screening of a Sergei Parajanov film 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancenstors' in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre on 23rd November 2013, 10:10am.

Poster for a film screening of the Buster Keaton film 'Sherlock Jr' in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre on Friday 30th November, 10:10am.

Poster for a film screnning of 'Radio On' by Chris Petit in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre, Wednesday 12th January, 1:30pm

Poster for a film screening of Vis Com Films 'Mouchette' in the Barnes Lexture Theatre, 20th February.

Keynote conference took place on 25th April 2000.

Poster for lecture by Christopher Frayling - 'Imagining the Future: How designers in film have seen the future of the city', Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, 16 Dec 1999.

Poster for exhibition 'A Basketful of Currencies', Glasgow Arts Centre, Glasgow. The exhibition featured paintings and sculpture by Richard Walker, Peter Bevan, John Main and Tommy Lyndon. The date for the exhibition is given as 01 Sep-22 Sep, no year is given but it was held in 1990.

Source: https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1990-09-14/66/

Poster for exhibition '4 after 5', Serendipity Gallery, Lundin Links, Fife. Poster features portraits of four artists drawn by each other, namely Kay McLean, Catriona McDonald, Clare Scullion and Alan Rogers. The date of the exhibition is given as 22 Mar-08 Apr, no year is given but it is believed to be late 20th century.

Poster for exhibition 'Robert Paul - Recent Original Prints', Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh, 14 Jan 1984-04 Feb 1984.

Poster for exhibition 'Ann Beaty. D.A.' on the theme of gardens, University of Glasgow. The exhibition dates are 23 May-24 Jun and 25 Jun-20 Aug, no year is given but it is believed to be 1988 as it celebrates the Glasgow Garden Festival.

Poster for 'Ernest Hood' exhibition, Glasgow. The exhibition was held at the offices of Webster & Co., Chartered Surveyors at 45 West Nile Street. The exhibition dates were 12 Jan-24 Jan, the year is not given on the poster but is 1990 (see source below).

Source: https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1989-12-22/52/

Poster for 'Glasgow Group, 29[th] Annual Exhibition: Paintings - Print - Sculpture', McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 09 Jun 1986-21 Jun 1986. Artwork featured is 'Song of the Black Mirror' by Brian Kelly.

Poster for show 'Irony in Dorking' by Smith and Goody, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. The dates of the show were 26 Apr-27 Apr, no year is given but it is believed to be either 1979 or 1984.

Source: http://first-night-records.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=189

Poster for exhibition 'Like a Shadow: Representations of Death, Dying and Disposal in Art', Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow, 03 Sep 1998-03 Oct 1998. The exhibition was held alongside the conference 'The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal' at Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, 03 Sep 1998-06 Sep 1998.

The artwork featured on the poster is 'The Elegy' by John Bellany, 1993.

Poster for 'Please do not Bend', with signatures. June 2002.

'Please do not Bend' poster. June 2002. Identical poster to GSAA/EPH/10/328, but without added signatures.

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.

Poster reading 'Art Nouveau Stock on Display in GSA Lending Library'. Poster designed by Ewan A Macdonald. The date of the poster is unknown but is thought to be late 20th century.

Poster reading 'Women's Studies Stock on Display in GSA Lending Library'. Poster designed by Ewan A Macdonald. The date of the poster is not given but is thought to be late 20th century.

Poster advertising Honours Degree Courses in Art and Design, Architecture and Planning at The Glasgow School of Art.

Poster for 'Design Workshop in Scotland', The Glasgow School of Art and Tyler School of Art. The workshop was held in London, Glasgow and Philadelphia from 03 Jul 1993-31 Jul 1993.

Poster for 'Scottish Contributions to Photography' at Glasgow School of Art, March 1983

Poster for 'Design Workshop in Scotland', The Glasgow School of Art and Tyler School of Art, 02 Jul 1994-30 Jul 1994

Poster for GSA Fine Art Degree Show, 17 Jun 1989-22 Jun 1989

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

Poster for screening of 'Daisies', a film by Vera Chytilova at the Bourdon Lecture Theatre. Date of screening was 29 Oct, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century. Note that 'Chytilova' is spelt 'Chitilova' on the poster.

Poster for screening of film 'Vampyr', by Carl Dreyer in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre. Screening date was 11 Jan, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century.

Poster for screening of film 'Mon Oncle', by Jacques Tati in the Barnes Lecture Theatre. Screening date was 16 Jan, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century.