First Things First Manifesto
"The original piece acted as a call to arms to radicalise designers and warn against the ‘sheer noise’ of the ‘high-pitched scream of consumer selling’ in a bid to oppose the emerging sense that design was best used to sell and advertise."
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| Aldermaston to London, 1962 |
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| Committee of 100, 1962 |
'Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties' by Rick Poynor [Book]
"British graphic designers actively committed to political and social issues have always been in the minority. Such interventions tend to arise at times of public tension, as a cause ignites, and they always stem from firmly held beliefs." P145
On CND
"There was a black-and-white styles already, because it was cheapest. It was simple, you could say almost crude, printing technique - silkscreen - for the posters." P149
"So I took the existing poster and gradually laid one poster on top of another and felt it said something about a march - like the dawn of something, like when the moon comes to full size from being a small crescent." P150
"The tall banners were designed for the 1963 Easter March. We had issued each CND branch with stencils and cheap black cloth so that they could make their own banners containing slogans such as 'Against H Bases'." P150
"There were so many hundreds of them and when we marched along Whitehall it looked like an invading army." P150
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| Trafalgar Square, 1963 |
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| Trafalgar Square, 1963 |
On First Things First
"The graphic design business was prepared to be servant for whatever clients came along, and designers did not perhaps think too much about what they were working for, what influence it was having environmentally, politically and socially." P150
"We wanted social change and we felt we ought to be part of it." P150
"All the time, over the years, I have been bothered by this fact, that people think that once you start talking about an ethical stance you are entitled to put aside all other interest and talk about that as if it were all that matters. It is not." P150
'Drip-dry shirts: the evolution of the graphic designer' by Lucienne Roberts [Book]
"Perhaps I've been important not so much in graphic work that I have done, but more in the opinions and attitudes I've taken up. I do seem to have influenced people. To some extent this is because of the work, but its also from things that I've said, articles published, books, written, and yes, I think I have made a mark there of some sort." P90.
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