Bellows and the Body

After the acquisition of a key portrait by American artist George Bellows, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts held an in-depth exhibition, events and research programme. I was commissioned to provide designs for all aspects of the project from a custom logo and identity, exhibition graphics and printed guide through to all marketing collateral. Key aspects for the project were making the guide sympathetic to the newsprint of the day both in terms of materials and design and also to create facsimile copies of publications form the time period from scanned pages. These scans were carefully retouched and reformed to create printed vintage recreations.