The Art of Wallpaper Poster

This is a poster that I have designed for Dovecot’s forthcoming exhibition, The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co., which looks at the legacy of William Morris (1834-1896). Morris was a poet, craftsman, radical socialist and one of the world’s most successful pattern designers. The exhibition features over 130 works from the Morris & Co. archives and includes some of Morris’s most famous patterns as well as wallpapers by acclaimed 19th and 20th Century designers such as Owen Jones, Dresser, Pugin, and Voysey. 

The poster was designed following brand guidelines from the Sanderson Design Group that include the use of the William Morris designed typeface, Goldentype Original, alongside a palette of four colours drawn from Morris’s designs. The wallpaper image, Acanthus, was supplied by Sanderson from the Morris archive – I cut out the image from its background so it could be placed on a Morris Green background, giving it more of a sense of a physical object (the wallpaper samples will be framed in the exhibition and have a strong physical presence). As well as the poster, I have designed indoor and outdoor banners – other assets will be produced by Dovevot based on my poster design. 

The exhibition runs at Dovecot from 28 January to 11 June 2022. Find out more here.