Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Friday, January 14, 2005
Thursday, July 01, 2004
One of the reasons that I love Mr Happy so much is that he was used as the logo for the Glasgow's Miles Better Campaign in the 1980s. I associate it paricularly strongly with Christmas shopping trips, with my excitement mounting when we passed the banner on the Daily Record building on the way into the city. The campaign ran from 1983-1989, and was one of the most successful city promotions ever - marking Glasgow's transition from the "Mean city" of the 1960s and 1970s to the "City of Culture and Architecture" of the 1990s. In the late 1980s, even the leaders of the national polictical parties jumped on the bandwagon - or more ccurately the bus - appearing in an advertising campaign that featured them and the Mr Happy logo on a London bus.
'Glasgow's Miles Better', Glasgow City Council website
'Glasgow's Miles Better - Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs,' The Glasgow Story
'Glasgow's Miles Better', Glasgow City Council website
'Glasgow's Miles Better - Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs,' The Glasgow Story
Labels:
architecture,
art,
cartoons,
Glasgow,
public information campaigns
Friday, June 25, 2004
Designing Britain, 1945-1975: the visual experience of post-war society
A description, from the page about the project:
"The end product consists of 7 web-based E-Learning modules, each containing about 100 visual records. Visual source material derives from the University's expanding Design History Research Centre (DHRC) Archives as well as incorporating associated collections. The product is aimed at and delivered to the Higher Education (HE) community"
It includes some great images of the art designed for the Festival of Britain.
A description, from the page about the project:
"The end product consists of 7 web-based E-Learning modules, each containing about 100 visual records. Visual source material derives from the University's expanding Design History Research Centre (DHRC) Archives as well as incorporating associated collections. The product is aimed at and delivered to the Higher Education (HE) community"
It includes some great images of the art designed for the Festival of Britain.
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