A Short History of British Standard Colours Current BS 381C colours Founded in London in 1901, the Engineering Standards Committee was renamed as the British Engineering Standards Association in 1918. After receiving a Royal Charter in 1929, the organisation was again renamed; this time as the more familiar British Standards Institution (BSI). Setting voluntary – …Read More
A Short History of the British Colour Council Ribbon samples of colour from the Dictionary of Colour Standards The British Colour Council (BCC) was set up in 1931 and chaired by Robert Francis Wilson, a designer and subsequent author of Colour in Industry Today: A practical book on the functional use of colour (1960). The organisation …Read More
Sadly I missed the Bruce Pennington exhibition, in the autumn of 2013, in Brighton. I have been an admirer of his work since reading the Martian Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which were the very first science fiction books I ever read. Although his cover illustration for A Princess of Mars, the first book in …Read More
Original masters: covers by Chris Foss, Bruce Pennington, Peter Elson, Peter Goodfellow and Bruce Pennington again (I think). Rearranging my book shelves the other day, I became happily distracted by the covers of my science fiction collection. I have always loved the genre’s cover art and from the age of about nine, it wholly …Read More