Examples of Edward Bawden's Work - designs                 

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During a career spanning over 60 years, Edward Bawden produced some of the most influential designs of the 20th century from advertising material for Shell to ceramics for the Orient Line. The Bawden Archive at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery includes examples of his earliest work from his days at the Royal College of Art to personal Christmas cards from the 1980s.

Book jackets, book illustrations and magazine covers
	Some of the most well-known are: Adam and Evelyn at Kew The Arabs Herodotus The Hound of the Baskervilles Lady Filmy Fern Life in an English Village The Oxford Illustrated Old Testament The Queen's Beasts Rasselas Utopia

Advertising material: posters, catalogues and cards
	Companies which commissioned Bawden included:   The BBC Ealing Film Studios Fortnum & Mason London Transport Poole Potteries Shell-Mex Twining's Teas Wedgwood Westminster Bank

Christmas cards
	Bawden designed cards both commercially and for his own personal use.

Wallpapers
	At various periods Bawden ventured into designing wallpapers: in the 1920s he worked for the Curwen Press and in 1938-1939 the Bardfield Wallpapers were designed and sold by Edward Bawden and John Aldridge.

Furniture
	In 1956 Edward Bawden was commissioned to design a cast-iron garden seat for the Bilston Iron Foundry.

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