People and events

SO SUCCESSFUL in user terms have been the leaflets, brochures and informational posters prepared in recent years by Lambeth Public Libraries' design studio, that an exhibition of the graphic work of designers Adrian Hodgkins and Linda Grimes for the library service was mounted at the London College of Printing in Clerkenwell during May. The printed introduction to the exhibition remarks that ‘Lambeth and a number of other local authorities recognise the need for a high standard of graphic presentation for the publicity and dissemination of information of its activities’—a judgment which was amply confirmed by the work on display. Director Roy McColvin adds: ‘It is our view that a free, non‐institutionalised but appropriate design policy helps enormously, first to give information of the services, and secondly to publicise the activities’.