Typos  Graphic Arts Students' Association 1951-52. LCP

Colin Forbes / Harold Bartram

Designed and printed by students at The London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. 44 pp

At this stage the Association’s publication had evolved from being a bulletin to a review and now for the first time to a magazine, called ‘Typos’. Previously, the title was ’The Bulletin’.

Foreword by Sir Francis Meynell

Some Participants/works in this early Typos publication include Harold Bartram (older brother of Alan Bartram), C A Forbes and Fred Lambert. One lettering student, Valerie Vigar,  shows her suggestion for a completion of lettering of the inscription on the Trojan Column, Rome. 

Good spot colour illustrations throughout the magazine.

Very nice layout of some photography pages with images bleeding off the page. Showing abstract, subjective photography.

Some information about Harold Bartram:

Red Cross Centenary Congress Stamps. Issued 1963

The successful artist, HAROLD BARTRAM, was born in London in 1928. He trained at the Central School of Arts & Crafts between 1946 and 1950, and subsequently worked in magazine illustration and most other fields of print design (folders, leaflets, books, stationery, posters, etc) for clients as various as Shell Petroleum, British Railways, and the National Union of Teachers. He also taught graphic design and typography at the London School of Printing; in 1963 he was Senior Lecturer in the Design Department of the London College of Printing and also Consultant Designer to the stamp printers Harrisons. The Red Cross issue was his only British stamp design.

https://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/explore/issues/?issue=59

Some details about Alan Bartram: (1932-2013) was a British graphic designer and historian of design and lettering.
Bartram studied painting and typography and became a graphic designer, working for Lund Humphries and IBM. He researched the history of British vernacular design and lettering, publishing books on traditional British tombstones, shop and street name lettering as well as on book typography.
He is one of a group of designers who transformed the face of British art, fashion, film, television, advertising, newspapers and magazines’ between the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
Bartram, originally trained in painting, was taught typography by his brother Harold, who was a teacher at the London School of Printing (now the LCC).

Bartram took pictures of lettering on the many cycling trips he shared with his brother Harold. The photographs are now housed within the Central Lettering Record at Central Saint Martins in London. Most of the images are from the UK, but there are many from Italy, Spain and Eire.

https://collections.arts.ac.uk/people/10986/alan-bartram;jsessionid=917FA9B78EA4614283A7A6F7301AEDFB

GASA / Graphic Arts Students’ Association  ‘Eagle' Logo

“We were all members of GASA, and many of our group were Office Holders at one time or another,” says graduate Mac Denison. “Our logo showed an eagle with an artist’s brush.”

In this issue of Typos, the early emblem of this eagle is printed on the title page.

https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/stories/london-school-of-printing-alumni-celebrate-over-6-decades-of-friendship

The Association organised various activities, such as ‘A Debating Society’, Dance and Band entertainment, sports such as cricket, golf and table tennis. A photographic competition  was held in 1951 and prizes awarded by Gilbert Cousland F. R. P. S. Several Forbes' photos won 1st, 2nd prize and a commendations. 

C A Forbes / Colin Ames Forbes (Colin Forbes, Co-Founder of Pentagram Design)

Pages 31, 32 and 36 show photographs by C A Forbes. I assume these are by Colin Forbes, having been at / or in contact with the London School of Printing / Graphic Arts Students’ Association and had images included in Typos. Even though Central School of Arts and Craft is given as the place of his studies, it appears there was collaboration between the schools. 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/10/colin-forbes-obituary