Advertising Design
Design
20th century (made)
20th century (made)
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Colin Banks and John Miles met at Maidstone art school between 1948 and 1953, and set up ‘Banks and Miles’ – a design office specialising in typography – in 1958. They built up a successful firm and, in 1972, began their landmark 11-year identity programme for the Post Office featuring the famous double lettering.
Design work by Banks and Miles was fundamental to the development of the corporate identity of many national institutions. Clients included the British Council, the Post Office, British Telecom, Which?, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and London Transport.
Banks and Miles disbanded their practice in 1996 to work independently. The archive of Banks and Miles’s work is held at Reading University.
Design work by Banks and Miles was fundamental to the development of the corporate identity of many national institutions. Clients included the British Council, the Post Office, British Telecom, Which?, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and London Transport.
Banks and Miles disbanded their practice in 1996 to work independently. The archive of Banks and Miles’s work is held at Reading University.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts.
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| Title | Advertising Design (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Drawn and coloured on tracing paper with pencil, ink and feltip then taped with selotape to card. |
| Brief description | Banks & Miles; advertising design for Transport for London, 20th century |
| Physical description | Designs for advertising, multiple graphics (left to right): 'Come in No.68 your tea's getting cold' (number 10), image of a bus 'Blow this for a lark! I wish i'd brought my knitting!' (number 14), image of a stop sign in red and blue (number 13), image of a bus behind a toy bus (number 16), image of TFL logo 'General Election, Local Election' (number 18), image of dancing workers around a crate labeled 'SPARES' (number 15) and image of 2 TFL security guards 'frog marching a man in a bowler hat (number 17). |
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| Production type | Design |
| Object history | Production varied in Banks and Miles, some work would be commissioned from freelance illustrators. Charts and diagrams would usually be design by John Miles, Colin Banks or one of the in-house designers. The finished art works would usually have been finished by the resident draughtsman Peter Taylor. From information supplied by John Miles, 2017. |
| Summary | Colin Banks and John Miles met at Maidstone art school between 1948 and 1953, and set up ‘Banks and Miles’ – a design office specialising in typography – in 1958. They built up a successful firm and, in 1972, began their landmark 11-year identity programme for the Post Office featuring the famous double lettering. Design work by Banks and Miles was fundamental to the development of the corporate identity of many national institutions. Clients included the British Council, the Post Office, British Telecom, Which?, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and London Transport. Banks and Miles disbanded their practice in 1996 to work independently. The archive of Banks and Miles’s work is held at Reading University. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.130-2018 |
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| Record created | June 6, 2017 |
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