Scope and Contents A large portfolio containing a number of advertisements/posters for a variety of companies and organisations, which feature Luck & Flaw plasticine model illustrations and other work by the partnership. Also found within this portfolio are large photographs with illustrations, and photographic proofs for Clouded Tiger Cards postcards.The following are present:1. An advertisement proof for the Dutch advertising company, PPGH/Moussault, which has a representation of John...

Scope and Contents Issues and tearsheets for various British and International magazines, journals and other publications; which contain articles and/or images relating to either Spitting Image, Spitting Image Productions Limited and its various activities, Roger Law or Peter Fluck. In some cases, Spitting Image is merely mentioned in passing. The following items are present:1. Tearsheets from the 14 December 1985 (No. 25/26) issue of the Dutch...

Scope and Contents A box containing a bundle of letters, received by Roger Law and Peter Fluck, as part of their professional activities as the partnership, Luck & Flaw. There are also a few copies of letters sent by the partnership. The letters in 1975 straddle the line between Law working by himself and collaborating with Fluck. The years 1982 and 1983 are also a transitional period, when the partnership's activities morph into the wider work of Spitting Image Productions Limited.The topics...

Scope and Contents A box containing correspondence, press releases, lecture material, and other documents relating to public lectures and discussions involving Roger Law, which were either part of wider events or for an organisation. The following events/organisations are represented, but not limited to: TED Talk 6, held in California in February 1995; the Royal Melbourne Institute of Art, which hosted Law in October 1996; Whitechapel Art Gallery, which had a series of lectures, Mind's Eye...

Scope and Contents 19 glass negatives, which have originally been separated into five sets and contain images of illustrations by Roger Law, and also images of pages from publications that feature Law's work, along with images of other items. The following are present: a set that is primarily comprised of images relating to the 1967 Designers and Art Directors Association Awards, including an image of the 1967 silver award certificate received by Law; a set that contains images of artwork featured in the...

Scope and Contents Two hardboard woodcuts featuring print designs by Roger Law, which were used in the commemorative issue of the publication, Granta, in November 1964. These prints were used to illustrate the article, How the West Was Lost. One of the woodcuts features a likeness of the American Republican politician, Barry Goldwater, wearing a cowboy hat and a poka-dot bandana (RL/Pre-/861). The other woodcut features a likeness of James Butler Hickok...

Scope and Contents A file containing six issues of the Cambridge University student magazine, Granta. Roger Law and Deirdre Amsden were art directors for some of the issues, along with providing illustrations to accompany articles, etc. The following items are present:1. May 1961 (Vol. LXIV, No. 1209) - Law's first issue as art director; there is also a small print design by him, accompanying the poem, Autumn, by Michael Grant...

Scope and Contents A file holding four pieces of paper that feature pencil illustrations of British political and royal figures (RL/Pre-/1527 (a)-(d)), by Roger Law. The individuals depicted in the illustrations are: Richard Austen Butler; Winston Churchill, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Macmillan, and Queen Consort Mary (of Teck). There are two separate portrait drawings of Churchill and Macmillan, and also a piece of paper that contains portraits of Churchill, Gaitskell and Macmillan. On the back of the latter,...

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A Gundulph invoice/statement duplicate book, which contains copies of invoices for orders of Luck & Flaw's Prince Charles [afterwards King Charles III]/Princess Diana/baby Prince William eggcup set. These orders were dealt with between 31 July and 25 September 1982. Some of the orders also include the purchase of the Margaret Thatcher teapot and other items.

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A 31-page typescript copy of a play script written by Jan Carew, titled, No Gown for Peter. Carew incorporated into the play the experiences of Roger Law and Peter Fluck, who both waited tables at Trinity College, while studying at Cambridge School of Art.

Carew shared a house with Law, Fluck, their respective wives, and Richard Fletcher and his family at the beginning of the 1960s.

Scope and Contents A file containing a photocopy of a curriculum vitae for ceramist and artist, Janice Tchalenko, along with a brochure for an exhibition held at the Richard Dennis Gallery, 'Modern Antiques.'Tchalenko collaborated with Roger Law and Pablo Bach to create ceramic sculptures, based upon the seven deadly sins, which were exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in 1993. Tchalenko, Law and Bach would collaborate further on a series of ceramic pots, which were displayed as part of...

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A hardboard woodcut that has a poster design for a 'Jazz Meets Poetry' event to be held at the Cambridge Masonic Hall, on 9 March 1961. The poster features a large circle, and is accompanied by a list of performers (RL/Pre-/1457; wrongly numbered on item as 1144).

Scope and Contents A file of letters and other items addressed to or relating to one of the producers of Spitting Image Productions Limited, Jon Blair. Items include: letters regarding the extension of Anne Newcombe's contract with the company; a letter from Barry Morris, regarding the state of SIPL's financial accounts; and what appears to be a rough draft of a letter from Roger Law to Blair, regarding news that the latter has been criticising SIPL to the members of upper management at Central Independent...

Scope and Contents A portfolio containing large and/or mounted photographs that feature mainly Spitting Image-related illustrations and images, either material connected to merchandise, external publications or other activities engaged in by Spitting Image Productions Limited. Some of the photographic prints are contemporaneous with when they were originally shot, and others are later reprints. The later reprints may be dated beyond the SIPL era (1983-1998).There is also a...

Scope and Contents A file of mostly 10" x 8" colour photographic transparencies, containing images of plasticine model illustrations made by Roger Law, which were published in The Sunday Times Magazine and other outlets. Other large sizes of transparencies are present. The file contains the following:1. A transparency with an image of one of the models featured in the article, Who Counts in the Country Set, written by Roy Perrott, which...

Scope and Contents A file holding 9 200mm x 250mm photographic transparencies, which contain images used as part of Spitting Image Productions Limited merchandise, external advertising campaigns involving the work of SIPL, and a set of unpublished Royal Mail stamps. The following images are present:1. Two examples of the Margaret Thatcher 'Adoration of the Statue' image used in the British version of the SIPL publication, Spitting Images (SI/32).2. A plasticine...

Scope and Contents Two examples of a postcard produced by the company, Leeds Postcards, which features a photograph of members of the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People, whom are protesting beneath a Guardian newspaper billboard advertisement. This advertisement features a model illustration of the Britannia figure, which is depicted as a wheelchair-bound old woman. The back of the postcard gives the following description of the image: 'Disabled women protest against...

Scope and Contents A file containing two letters from French sculptor, Etienne Aillaud, a member of the artisan company, Atelier Bombyx. The first letter is dated 21 February [c 1987-c 1988], and is addressed to Spitting Image Productions Limited artists, Pablo Bach and David Stoten. The letter is accompanied by photographs of foam/resin sculptures that Atelier Bombyx have produced for various clients. This letter was also originally accompanied by a number of chess pieces [see MS Add.10275/3/9/4/1], modelled...

Scope and Contents A file containing two manuscript letters: one from British illustrator, Julian Allen, and the other from his partner, Joan Steiner; sent together from the United States during the Thanksgiving season. Allen's letter is addressed to both Roger Law and Deirdre Amsden, and also Peter Fluck and his wife Ann, and includes some of the following topics: plans for Christmas; a story about individuals taking money from an intelligence agency; Muhammad Ali's The Rumble in the...

Scope and Contents A file holding three manuscript letters written by Roger Law and addressed to his mother-in-law, Jean. Two of the letters pre-date Law's marriage to Deirdre Amsden, with one containing Law's thanks for the gift of a thesaurus and the other enquiring into Jean's health; the latter has drawings in pen (RL/Pre-/1125 and 1126). The other letter is from circa 1967 and its contents focus on the definition of what is and what is not 'camp,' with this subject appearing to have been the topic of a...

Scope and Contents A file containing two manuscript letters received by Roger Law's mother, Winnie, relating to Law and the Cambridge School of Art/Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art. The first letter is from the tutor to the intermediate course at the school, H. Warrell, dated 29 March 1958, which informs Winnie of her son's progress and describes Law as 'a satisfactory student generally of about average capacity.' The second letter is from David Joseph, dated 23 December 1958, who appears to...

Scope and Contents A box containing paperwork created and gathered by Lewis Chester and his research assistant, Peter Jones, as part of their work on the Roger Law/Spitting Image Productions Limited book, A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art and Graft of Spitting Image. The following are present: three sub-files with transcripts from interview tapes, featuring contributions from Roger Law, David King and other individuals; a hand-corrected manuscript for the book; and a sub-file containing...

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A large cartoon mural featuring a felt-tip pen and coloured crayon illustration, along with photographs taken from newspapers, created by Roger Law for display at Peter Cook's nightclub, The Establishment. The artwork features representations of various Liberal/Labour political figures, along with individuals associated with liberalism, including Bertrand Russell and Michael Foot (RL/Pre-/1482).

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A visifile containing seven advertisements for the mouthwash product, Listerine, which feature Luck & Flaw plasticine model illustrations. These advertisements were made to be displayed on London Underground trains, and were commissioned by the advertising company, J. Walter Thompson. The photographic images of the illustrations were taken by John Lawrence Jones (L+F/270-276).

There are several copies of each advertisement.

Scope and Contents A file containing papers relating to an episode of the BBC documentary series, Omnibus, which focused on Roger Law, Peter Fluck, their work on Spitting Image and their influences. This episode was aired on BBC 1, on 26 July 1985. This file contains a letter to Law from the show's producer, Mary Dickinson, accompanied by copies of notes. These notes were taken by Dickinson in meetings between herself, Law and Peter Fluck, along with the...