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Box of Miscellaneous Material, 1975 - 1984, c 2000s-c 2010s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/7/2

Scope and Contents

A box containing the following miscellaneous items:

1. A diary book for the year 1979, which is also accompanied by two smaller memo books, which document expenses for business trips to Amsterdam, Hamburg and Paris. The three items contain Roger Law's handwriting.

2. A PS Promotion & Productions Luck & Flaw brochure, which has Clouded Tiger Card postcards stapled inside. The brochure has a message from Law, intended for a couple of former students he taught at Reed College, Gary Achziger and Linda Burnham, and contains other annotations by him on some of the pages; dated c 1982.

3. A letter addressed to Law and Peter Fluck from James Clark at Trewin Copplestone Publishing Limited, dated 30 May 1978, regarding the return of illustration transparencies for a book project that has been discontinued.

4. A speech transcript relating to the presentation of a Wolff Olins Award by the Association of Illustrators, given to Luck & Flaw for their submissions to the Images 8 publication; dated 1983.

5. A 1977 certificate awarded by The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) to Law [and Fluck] for their illustrations featured on the covers of three issues of The New York Times Magazine in 1975 and 1976. This certificate is accompanied by a note from the magazine's art director, Ruth Ansel, along with examples of the illustrations that were awarded.

6. Two Christmas cards, produced by Private Eye, which feature the Michael Foot 'Worzel Gummidge' illustration; c 1982. These cards are inscribed with season's greetings from Law and family to his parents.

7. A zinc printing plate that features the Margaret Thatcher 'Iron Lady' illustration (L&F/231); dated 1976.

8. A university dissertation, George Grosz and Lenny Bruce: A Comparative Analysis, written by Andrew Peter Robey; dated 1980. Robey worked for Luck & Flaw in the late 1970s, and would go on to work for Spitting Image Productions Limited.

9. A university dissertation on Luck & Flaw, written by Andrew J. Pye, accompanied by a letter from Pye to the partnership; dated 1983 and 1984.

10. A green hardback volume that documents the various work undertaken by Luck & Flaw between 1975 and 1983, with information on publication, deadline for job and fee for work. The volume is titled, inside, Partnership Workbook. The volume has later additions, c 2000s-c 2010s, presumably from Deirdre Amsden, noting the L&F reference number connected with each job.

Dates

  • Creation: 1975 - 1984
  • Creation: c 2000s-c 2010s

Creator

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright - held by various parties.

Extent

1 archive box(es) : Paper, zinc plate

Language of Materials

English

Separated Materials

The New York Times Magazine issues featuring the illustrations that are the subject of the AIGA certificate are found in the file, MS Add.10275/2/2/3/9. The Images 8 publication, which is the subject of the Wolff Olin speech transcript, is present in the file, MS Add.10275/2/2/1/2.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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