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Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945-1980 (softback edition)

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Projecting British Design : the Design Council Slide Collection

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Modernist Scotland

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Red Square : Mary de Saulles and the 1960s BEA corporate identity

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TALKIN’BOUT 1976!

50 years since year zero for UK Punk & the Manchester connection.. The summer of 1976 in Manchester was hot… very hot. And amid the bubbling ta...

Manchester Small Press Fair

Seesaw, Fly on the Wall Press and Manchester City of Literature present a weekend fair celebrating the city's independent publishing scene. Wheth...

Biblioteka Art Book Fair 2026

the modernist will be attending the Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the Warburg Institute 2nd Edition of Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the Warburg Ins...

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