by Applied Image | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, News Archives
Dr Christine Boydell explores Marion Dorn’s design journey with Warner & Sons. Marion Victoria Dorn was born in San Francisco in 1896, and settled in London in 1923 with her partner, the graphic designer Edward McKnight Kauffer. At this time, she began designing...
by Applied Image | Feb 2, 2015 | News Archives, Press Releases
This year we are celebrating the connection between renowned designer William Morris and Warner & Sons. Click here for further details.
by Applied Image | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog, News Archives
by Cathy MacTaggart In 2013 I spent some time volunteering at the Warner Textile Archive, and found I met lots of people with a wide variety of skills. At the time I was working on the penultimate module of my degree in Contemporary Applied Art, but was struggling to...
by Applied Image | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
by Lesley Ellis Miller V&A Publishing, 2014 In 1972, Warner & Sons sold a selection of items from its business archive through Christie’s, and donated a special collection to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Selected by Nathalie Rothstein, among the...
by Applied Image | Sep 21, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
Summer Belles is an eye-catching hand-painted paper design, communicating the social freedom that many began to experience in the 1970s. Like many other designs in the Archive Collection, it highlights another side of Warner & Sons’ legacy – that of...
by Applied Image | Aug 27, 2014 | In The Press, News Archives
“Silk for a few, bullets and mud for men at the front” Our research into Warner & Sons’ contribution to the war effort between 1914 and 1918 was featured in the East Anglian Daily Times on Saturday 23rd August. Click here to read Steven...
