A new Design Archives display, featuring the archive of the graphic designer Hans Arnold Rothholz, has been installed at Grand Parade.
15 Aug 2013
A new Design Archives display, featuring a selection from the archive of the graphic designer Hans Arnold Rothholz (1919-2000), has been installed outside the Centre for Research and Development at Grand Parade.
Arnold Rothholz came to Britain from Germany in 1933. He studied commercial art and display design at the Reimann School in London and at the Willesden School of Art, and went on to a highly successful career as a designer of posters and graphic schemes for a wide range of prominent British institutions and businesses.
The display demonstrates the diversity of Rothholz’s design work, in four key areas: his evolving designs of packaging for Winsor & Newton artist materials; original artwork for his well-known posters for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) during the 1940s and 1950s; the People at Work section of the Festival of Britain Land Travelling Exhibition (1951); and menus for the Bacon & Egg and Grill & Cheese restaurants in 1947.
The display has been curated by Hayley Ryan (Museum and Heritage Studies Level 2) as part of a placement in the Design Archives.
