HoPIN Webinar: Illustrating Industry

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Artsfest Online and The History of the Printed Image Network are pleased to present Illustrating industry. Presentations by Ruth Hibbard, Deborah Sutherland and Sandy Jones, chair Caroline Archer co-director of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.

Picturing a modern world: the Jobbing Printing Collection as a reflection of innovation in industry and commerce in the 1930s Ruth, Sandy and Deborah will use examples from the V&A National Art Library’s Jobbing Printing Collection to highlight how this collection of graphic design from the 1930s reflects innovations in commerce and industry at the time. Ruth will look at printing jobs for industrial companies who were utilising new materials and manufacturing new products; Sandy will explore how E McKnight Kauffer’s work was optimised by progressive clients and printers’ technological developments; and Deborah will describe how the Chicago printing firm RR Donnelley & Sons marketed that progress. Ruth Hibbard is a curator in the Department of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the V&A.

Deborah Sutherland has been a librarian at the V&A for over 20 years. Sandy Jones is a volunteer researcher at the NAL with a special interest in the Jobbing Printing Collection. Since 2015 we have worked together on the Jobbing Printing collection.

The History of the Printed Image Network (HoPIN), aims to connect those interested in the history of printed images, including (but not limited to) artistic prints, book illustration, chapbooks, ballad-sheets, maps, photographs, transfer-prints, etc.

This talk was recorded on 23rd November 2021.

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