Close cooperation for a tight deadline
With no time to mess around I was relieved the client insisting that the Portsmouth Grammar School history should ‘look exactly like’ another (Durham University) I had just completed. This saved the time I would usually take in submitting alternative design proposals.
But it was only because of the commitment of the headmaster (now Master of Magdalen College School, Oxford), and Catherine Smith, the school’s tireless archivist, that we met the fixed publication date.
Fixed because the launch of Independent Vision was to be held in the Jerusalem Chamber through the good offices of an OP, the Abbey’s Receiver General.
Example Spreads
Book Launch
Four heads prepare to sign copies at the book launch in Westminster Abbey. Left to right, James Prior, headmaster elect; Tim Hands, the retiring incumbent; Tony Evans, his predecessor; and David Richards, his predecessor.
The author, Nigel Watson enjoying the company of the school archivist, Catherine Smith.
John Hall, the Dean of Westminster and the book’s publisher, Hamish MacGibbon, centre, under the gaze of Henry IV in the Jerusalem Chamber where, as Shakespeare recounts, he came to die.
