Brian Webb

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{{Infobox person

| name = Brian Webb

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|01|15}}

| birth_place = Chester, England

| occupation = Graphic designer, author, art director

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Brian Webb (born January 15, 1945{{Cite web |title=Art History Research |url=https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/index.php?mode=stream&tab=1&person_ref=9162862&letter=G&findMode=browse_subjects&person_name=Webb,+Brian&subject_name=Webb,+Brian |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=www.arthistoryresearch.net}}) is a graphic designer and director of Webb & Webb Design Limited.{{Cite web |title=Webb & Webb Design Limited |url=https://webbandwebb.co.uk/about/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Webb & Webb |language=en}}

Brian Webb initially trained as a technical illustrator at Liverpool College of Art but later moved to Canterbury with the intention of working in television. In 1971, Webb moved to London and founded Trickett & Webb with Lynn Trickett. His work is in the permanent collections of the V&A, London{{Citation |last=Trickett |first=Lynn |title=Week Link |date=c. 1999 |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O103087/calendar-week-link/week-link-calendar-trickett-lynn/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |last2=Webb |first2=Brian |last3=Martin |first3=Augustus}} and MoMA, New York.{{Cite web |title=Brian Webb - Director - Webb & Webb |url=https://www.recommendedagencies.com/webb-webb/people/5949/brian-webb |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Recommended Agency Register}}

For Camberwell press, he edited and designed Submarine Dream, a book of Eric Ravilious’ wartime lithographs (1996) and A Thousand Years A Thousand Words, a celebration of Royal Mail Millennium Stamp project, 2000. For the University of the Arts, Webb curated exhibitions and designed catalogues for Sir Peter Blake's Sculpture and Commercial Art shows from 2003 to 2004. In 2008 Webb was elected as Master of the Art Workers' Guild.{{cite book |author=Fairman |first=Elisabeth R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YaLQDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22master+of+the+art+workers%27+Guild%22+%22Brian+Webb%22&pg=PT214 |title=Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies |last2=Hogan |first2=Eileen |last3=Robinson |first3=Duncan |last4=Morris |first4=Roderick Conway |last5=Longstaffe-Gowan |first5=Todd |last6=Turner |first6=Sarah Victoria |publisher=Yale Center for British Art |year=2019 |isbn=9780300241471 |page=214}} Webb's work appeared in the 2008 London Transport Posters, a Century of Art and Design published by Lund Humphries{{Cite web |title=London Transport Posters |url=https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/london-transport-posters |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Lund Humphries |language=en}} and in the 2010 Think of it as a Poster, for the Fleece Press.{{Cite web |title=Bibliography |url=https://fleecepress.com/bibliography |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=The Fleece Press |language=en-US}}

Brian Webb was a fellow and past president of the Chartered Society of Designers, a fellow of the University College of the Creative Arts (now the University for the Creative Arts{{Cite web |title=UCA | University for the Creative Arts |url=http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/alumni/brian-webb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223112417/http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/alumni/brian-webb |archive-date=23 December 2012}}), a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London,{{Cite web |title=The AOI - Brian Webb, Designer, Webb & Webb, UK |url=https://theaoi.com/wia/brian-webb-designer-webb-webb-uk/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=The AOI |language=en-GB}} and a Royal Society of the Arts Student Design Bursary judge.