Eileen Evans

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Eileen Margaret Evans (8 November 1921 - August 2006) was a British graphic designer who co-founded the Mount/Evans design studio with graphic designer, Reginald Mount after World War II.{{Cite web|title = The National Archives {{!}} Research and learning {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} The Art of War {{!}} Artists|url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/artists/mount_reginald.htm|website = www.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date = 6 September 2015}}{{cite web |title=Eileen Margaret Evans |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV4H-DVB1 |publisher=England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007 |access-date=29 April 2020}}

Biography

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Evans studied commercial art at the Reimann School in London, graduating in 1939.{{Cite book|title = Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans|author =Elizabeth Lomas|publisher = Routledge|year = 2001|isbn = 9781579583156|pages = 185–186}} Evans selected this school expressly due to its reputation for providing good employment opportunities.{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasuko |title=Modernism, Commercialism and Display Design in Britain: The Reimann School and Studios of Industrial and Commercial Art |journal=Journal of Design History |date=2006 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=137–154 |doi=10.1093/jdh/epl008 |jstor=3838660}} Shortly afterwards, she joined the Ministry of Information (which later became the Central Office of Information or COI).

During the war Evans and Mount worked together at the Ministry of Information designing many public information and propaganda posters. Evans also created posters independently of Mount, including at least one recruitment poster for farm workers, plus several for the Lend A Hand on the Land campaign which encouraged city families to take working holidays to help with wartime harvests.{{cite book|author=Gill Clarke|publisher=Sansom & Company|year=2008|title=The Women's Land Army A Portrait |isbn=978-1-904537-87-8}}{{cite book|author=Richard Slocombe|publisher=Imperial War Museum|year=2014|title=British Posters of the Second World War |isbn=978-1-904897-92-7}}

Evans is one of the featured artists in the National Archives 'The Art of War' collection. Her collaborative work with Mount is also included in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections.{{Cite web|title =Thousands of Jobs are filled by the Employment Exchange every day.|url = http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O206525/thousands-of-jobs-are-filled-poster-eileen-evans/|access-date = 6 September 2015|work=Victoria & Albert Museum}}{{Cite web|title =Don't Brag About Your Job|url = http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O548569/dont-brag-about-your-job-poster-mount-edward-reginald/|access-date = 6 September 2015|work=Victoria & Albert Museum}}{{Cite web|title =Don't Ask A Man To Drink And Drive |url = http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O819443/dont-ask-a-man-to-poster-mount-edward-reginald/|access-date = 6 September 2015|work=Victoria & Albert Museum}} Their anti-smoking and road safety posters won awards.{{Cite book|title = Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans, graphic designers|url = http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=DF25251616I84.105865&profile=nal&uri=link=3100006~!294157~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&ri=3&source=~!horizon&term=Mount%25252C+Reginald%25252C+1906-1979+--+Archives.&index=NAME|work=Victoria & Albert Museum}}

In their joint work and commissions, Evans was responsible for the typography and layout of the posters. Their partnership continued into the 1950s and 1960s with posters such as The Parachute Regiment for the British Army Recruiting Office, the 1967 Britain in Montreal poster for the Department of Trade and further work for the Department of Health.{{cite book|author=Paul Rennie |publisher=Black Dog Publishing|year=2010|title=Modern British Posters Art, Design & Communication|isbn=978-1-906155-97-1}}

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