British graphic designers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: William Morris, Eric Gill, Steven Cook, Rian Hughes, Peter Saville, Harry Beck, David Kindersley, Nick Percival, Martin Lambie-Nairn, Michael Peters, Alan Fletcher, Rick Poynor, Nick Bax, David Airey, James Hilton, Jamie Reid, Jonah Jones, Edward Johnston, William Caslon, Patrick Thomas, Robert Hales, Jannuzzi Smith, Ken Garland, Kerry William Purcell, Richard Hollis, Yulia Brodskaya, Jake Wallis Simons, Laurence Dunmore, Simon Halfon, Keith Breeden, Alex Rutterford, Angus Hyland, Roger Fawcett-Tang, Herbert Spencer, George Dow, Mike Dempsey, Julian House, Derek Birdsall, Nigel Holmes, Graily Hewitt, Colin Forbes, Richard Eckersley, David Houghton, Nick Shinn, John Siddle, Peter Sullivan, Oliver Elmes, William Neal, Graphic Thought Facility, Rick Lecoat, John Gorham, Matthew Dent, Ben Drury, Mark Farrow. Excerpt: William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he is considered an important writer of the British Romantic movement, helping to establish the modern fantasy genre; and a direct influence on postwar authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien. He was also a major contributor to reviving traditional textile arts and methods of production, and one of the founders of the SPAB, now a statutory element in the preservation of historic buildings in the UK. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896). He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with that organization over goals and methods by the end of the decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style print books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design. William Morris was born in Walthamstow on 24 March 1834, the third child and the eldest son of William Morris, a partner in the firm of Sanderson & Co., bill brokers in the City of London. His mother was Emma Morris née Shelton, daughter of Joseph Shelton, a teacher of music in Worcester. As a child Morris was deli