Railways studios :how a government design studio helped build New Zealand

Maker and role
Peter Alsop, Author
Neill Atkinson, Author
Katherine Milburn, Author
Richard Wolfe, Author
 Production date
2020
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Accession number
PUB-2021-18
Maker
Peter Alsop
Neill Atkinson
Katherine Milburn
Richard Wolfe
Description
"For many decades the Railways Department's design studio, Railways Studios, was New Zealand's 'go-to' advertiser. Its tourism and product ads appeared on railway-station hoardings and billboards throughout the land, and it developed some of New Zealand's most iconic graphic images"--Publisher information.

Content:
Chapter 1 - Beginnings
Chapter 2 - The Studios are Born
Chapter 3 - The People's Railway
Chapter 4 - Art on the Street
Chapter 5 - Facing Adversity
Chapter 6 - No Stone Unturned
Chapter 7 - A National Journal
Chapter 8 - Railways on Show
Chapter 9 - Inside the Studios
Chapter 10 - End of the Line
Chapter 11 - Afterlife
Design gallery: Travel Posters - Railways Magazine - Advertisements - Product Posters - Billboards - Safety Posters - Other Publicity - Biographies - Notes - Acknowledgements - Authors - Index - Additional Image Credits - Abbreviations.
Signature/Marks and Type
Walsh Memorial Library Stamp Ink Stamp
PUB-2021-18 Pencil
Media/Materials
Processed Material/Paper
Physical description
383 pages :colour illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780995133839
0995133832
Record level
Item
Credit line
Peter Alsop et al. 2020. Railways studios :how a government design studio helped build New Zealand, PUB-2021-18. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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All Rights Reserved

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