Ashley Havinden
{{Short description|British graphic designer}}
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| occupation = Graphic designer
| known_for = Ashley Script typeface
| honours = Royal Designers for Industry (1947)
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1903}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|1903}}
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File:Britain Can Make It exhibition poster.jpg exhibition. Council of Industrial Design, 1946.]]
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Ashley Havinden (1903–1973){{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1035262/britain-can-make-it-poster-havinden-ashley/|title=Britain Can Make It | Havinden, Ashley | V&A Search the Collections|publisher=collections.vam.ac.uk|accessdate=2014-03-10}} was an influential British graphic designer in the mid twentieth century. Specializing in posters, advertisements, logos and typography, he was also a textile and rug designer.{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Lesley|title=Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers : Visionary Textiles and Modern Art.|date=2012|publisher=V&A|location=London|isbn=9781851776603|page=321|edition=Hardback}} In 1947 he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry.
Early career
Havinden worked for the important advertising agency W.S. Crawford from the age of 19 where he was influenced by Stanley Morison who had introduced the sans serif faces for Monotype. The American designer Edward McKnight Kauffer was another influence. Havinden began to use asymmetrical layouts and new forms of lettering which he combined with the pithy words of copywriter Bingy Mills to produce a distinct style.[http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/ashley-havinden-advertising-and-the-artist Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist] studio international, 12 January 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140311080136/http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/ashley-havinden-advertising-and-the-artist/ Archived here.]
Typefaces
For Monotype he created the font Ashley Crawford (1930).[http://www.linotype.com/439/ashleyhavinden.html Font Designer – Ashley Havinden] linotype.com, 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140401082256/http://www.linotype.com/439/ashleyhavinden.html Archived here.] In 1955 Monotype also released the typeface Ashley Script, by which he immortalised his own handwriting in type.
Private life
When Havinden joined W.S Crawfords in 1922 he worked for Margaret Sangster. She married in the following year but in 1927 she started divorce proceedings and she married Havinden in the following year. In 1929 they both became directors of Crawfords.{{Citation |last=Broadbent |first=Lizzie |title=Havinden [née Sangster; other married name Blair], Margaret Kirk (1895–1974), advertising executive |date=2023-02-09 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000380813 |access-date=2024-11-02 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380813 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription }} Havinden and Margaret had two children together, whom were evacuated to America in 1940{{Cite book |last=Inc |first=Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlcEAAAAMBAJ |title=LIFE |date=1943-11-15 |publisher=Time Inc |pages=87–88 |language=en, Tr}}
References
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Further reading
- Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the artist. National Galleries of Scotland, 1999. {{ISBN|1903278376}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Calvocoressi|first1=R|title=Ashley's Textiles|journal=Journal of the Decorative Arts Society|date=1978|number=3|pages=4–14}}
- {{cite journal|title=Creative Men of The Agencies: no 3 Ashley|journal=Art & Industry|date=1938|volume=24: July–Dec|pages=191–7}}
External links
{{commons category|Ashley Havinden}}
- [https://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/havinden-ashley/5928/ Ashley Havinden items in the Victoria & Albert Museum.]
- {{cite web|url=http://ww2poster.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/ashley-havinden-b-1903-d-1973/ |title=Ashley Havinden (b.1903; d.1973) | Keep Calm and Carry On and other Second World War Posters |publisher=ww2poster.wordpress.com |accessdate=2014-03-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310235400/http://ww2poster.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/ashley-havinden-b-1903-d-1973/ |archivedate=2014-03-10 }}
- {{cite web|url=http://vintageposterblog.com/2010/09/08/havinden-it-all/#.Ux4wtYX1ZsE|title=Havinden it all | Quad Royal|date=8 September 2010 |publisher=vintageposterblog.com|accessdate=2014-03-10}}
- [http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/resources/rdis-at-britain-can-make-it,-1946/ashley-havinden Royal Designers for Industry & Britain Can Make It]
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