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Ashley Havinden
A few links about Ashley Havinden, known simply as ‘Ashley’, the advertising designer and abstract painter who attended Christ’s Hospital between 1914 and 1919.
Mark Fisher’s Guardian review of the exhibition
Some of his designs:
Poster for the Chrysler Motor Company, 1929
Another Chrysler poster, 1929
Carpet design, circa 1937
A wartime poster, recruiting auxiliary firemen
Ashley’s section of the 1946 ‘Britain Can Make It’ exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Fabric design, late 1940s
Fonts designed by Ashley:
Ashley Script
Ashley Crawford
Ashley Crawford Light
Advertising and the Artist: Ashley Havinden
by Michael Havinden (Ashley’s son), Richard Hollis, Ann Simpson & Alice Strang
(National Galleries of Scotland, £14.95)
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