Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Design museum explores the lost craft of British railway graphics
Timetables, enamel signs and the typography of getting there.
A design museum exhibition traces British railway graphics from enamel station signs to pocket timetables, arguing that clarity was once a public art.
Visitors linger longest over letterpress proofs—proof that logistics can still be beautiful.
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