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«Ambit», Issue 96, 1984, Designed by Derek Birdsall RDI and Alan Kitching [Design Reviewed, Braford]

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Georges Marciano  Guess ? The Panhandle 

Project Director Paul Marciano, Designed by Derek Birdsall RDI

Photographies Ken Griffiths. Texte Stephen Brook

Editions Guess? Inc., Los Angeles 1987, 92 pages

euro 120,00

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In 1987,  Guess?, Inc. commissioned Ken Griffiths to take the photographs for a limited edition book entitled The Panhandle, designed by Derek Birdsall RDI.

“I was photographing in Clarendon, Texas, when this truck parked in front of me. I was going to ask the driver to move but changed my mind when I saw this subject. The picture [Robbi and Son] led to me being commissioned for a book about the Texas Panhandle. I like it because it wasn’t planned and it sums up what I feel is important about photography: recording life as it really is.”  Ken Griffiths (quote from Photographers and their Images by Fi McGhee. Published by Conran Octopus, 1988)

19/12/21

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Alan Kitching is one of the world’s foremost practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking. In 1994 Alan Kitching was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and elected member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). In 1973 Alan began his own design practice in London with Colin Forbes. In 1977 he partnered with Derek Birdsall and Martin Lee at Omnific and started letterpress printing there in 1985. He began letterpress workshops in 1986 at Omnific Studios, Islington, London. He then went on to establish The Typography Workshop in Clerkenwell (1989). From 1994 he worked in partnership with designer/writer Celia Stothard (later his wife).

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Derek Birdsall [RDI] / Omnific, (cover design), Jean-Paul Sartre (1963): 'Words', «Penguin Modern Classics», Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1969 [«Penguin Series Design»]

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Derek Birdsall [RDI], (cover design), Harper Lee: 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964 [Design Reviewed, Braford]

Plus: Birdsall's typographic covers, «Penguin Series Design», September 11, 2017

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Derek Birdsall, RDI (1934-2024)

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(images: Derek Birdsall, Notes on Book Design, Edited by Adam Freudenheim and Jane Havell, Glossary and index by Jane Havell, Designed by Derik Birdsall RDI, Typeset by Shirley and Elsa Birdsall, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, and London, 2004)

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Derek Birdsall RDI, (cover design), Claire Tomalin: 'Young Bysshe', «Pocket Penguins» 61, Penguin Books, London, 2005 [«Penguin Series Design»]

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C.H.O.'D. Alexander [Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander], A Book of Chess, Edited and designed by Derek Birdsall [RDI] / Omnific, Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1973

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C.H.O.’D. Alexander [Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander], A Book of Chess, Edited and designed by Derek Birdsall [RDI] / Omnific, Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 114-116

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C.H.O.’D. Alexander [Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander], A Book of Chess, Edited and designed by Derek Birdsall [RDI] / Omnific, Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 137-138

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C.H.O.'D. Alexander [Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander], A Book of Chess, Edited and designed by Derek Birdsall [RDI] / Omnific, Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 131-136