Ashley Havinden

Ashley Havinden
Born 1903 (1903)
Died 1973 (1974) (aged 70)
Occupation Graphic designer
Havinden's poster for the Britain Can Make It exhibition. Council of Industrial Design, 1946.

Ashley Havinden (1903–1973)[1] was an influential British graphic designer in the mid twentieth century. In 1947 he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry.

Early career

Havinden worked for the important advertising agency W.S. Crawford from the age of 19 where he was influenced by Stanley Morison who had introduced the sans serif faces for Monotype. The American designer Edward McKnight Kauffer was another influence. Havinden began to use asymmetrical layouts and new forms of lettering which he combined with the pithy words of copywriter Bingy Mills to produce a distinct style.[2]

Typefaces

For Monotype he created the font Ashley Crawford (1930) and its variant Ashley Inline.[3] In 1955 Monotype also released the typeface Ashley Script, by which he immortalised his own handwriting in type.

References

  1. ↑ "Britain Can Make It | Havinden, Ashley | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  2. ↑ Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist studio international, 12 January 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2014. Archived here.
  3. ↑ Font Designer – Ashley Havinden linotype.com, 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014. Archived here.

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