Overview

Curated by Dominic Lippa, partner at Pentagram, with Sir John Sorrell, Chairman of the London Design Festival, this exhibition draws on the notion that the poster is one of the oldest and still one of the most powerful communication mediums. Read more


Featuring work by graphic designers and typographers who were given the brief of celebrating London by producing an A1 sized two colour poster. The project brought together many of the leading names in graphic design including Pentagram, Fuel, Spin and Studio Myerscough.

Our poster paid tribute to Harry Becks definitive London underground map by reproducing it using the two colours specified in the brief – red, for the Central line and black, for the Northern line. The other tube lines were deleted by virtue of not having the colour option to print them.

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Poster