Material relating to Ministry of Information exhibitions

CH/1/2

c. 1940 - 1948

Charles Hasler worked as a freelance designer producing posters for the British Transport Commission from the 1940s to the 1960s, during which time he was also a consultant for the printing company Waterlow & Sons Ltd for whom he designed their house-style. Between 1942 and 1951, Hasler was an exhibition designer for the Ministry of Information and the Central Office of Information. He worked on displays such as ‘Dig For Victory’, ‘Make Do and Mend’ and ‘Nation and the Child’. After the war, he became a senior designer and chairman of the Typographic Panel for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Hasler also designed covers, layouts and occasionally contributed articles for publications such as The Penrose Annual, Architectural Review, and The Complete Imbiber (vols 4 - 12, 1961-1971) for Vista Books, and various companies' trade literature as well as many smaller commissions for company logos. He wrote and published articles about typography and printing technique (both contemporary and historical, particularly Victorian colour printing) and in 1979 his 'The Royal Arms: its graphic and decorative development', a comprehensive work on the development of the styles and decoration of crests in Britain, was published by Jupiter Books.

Material relating to Ministry of Information exhibitions in which Charles Hasler was involved as a designer during the mid to late 1940s. 5 photographs of the 'Dig for Victory' exhibition (possibly should be 15); 11 photographs of construction of 'Army Exhibition' in Birmingham; 44 photographs of 'Greater London Plan' exhibition in 1945; 5 photographs of 'Builder and the State' exhibition in 1947; 32 photographs of 'Nation and the Child' exhibition at Olympia in 1948; 8 photographs of 'Scientific Industrial Research' stand at Olympia.

2 boxes (1 oversized)

ephemera

sub-series

, Charles Hasler, 1908-1992

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