Oil Often Graphic Design
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EXHIBITION DISPLAY DESIGN
Client Cube3 and The Thiepval Project
Chair Sir Frank Sanderson
Exhibition Design Graham Simpson
Art direction and graphic identity, display panels design, films and print components Duncan Youel, Tony Lyons, David Edgell, Philippa Baile, Kate Stretton, Lynette Eve and Chris Groothuizen
Consultant historians Michael Stedman, Professor Peter Simkins, Nigel Cave
and Michael Barker
Working with museum designers Cube3, French architects Koz and the Thiepval Project Committee, a major three-year project to establish a Visitor Centre on the Somme at Thiepval, by Lutyens' great Memorial to the Missing—the largest British war memorial. The art direction and design of the Centre’s graphic identity, display panels, three 15-minute films, animated screen graphics, catalogue, posters and associated print.
Above One of several posters designed for sale in the Visitor Centre Shop, showing portraits of 600 of the 73,000 Missing of the Somme—British soldiers whose bodies were forever lost on the battlefields
Top left Inner Sleeve design for the DVD retail release of the films
Left View of the Film Theatre
Below left Stills from the films
From top to bottom Exterior view of the newly-opened Visitor Centre, prior to completion of the landscaping; View from the film theatre end looking down the length of the Centre. The story of the British in the Great War is described here; View into the Film Theatre, with its distinctive sandbagged wall; View of the Memorial side of the Centre’s display—the panels on this side concentrate on the extensive grieving and memorialization process that pre-occupied the British nation throughout the 1920s and well into the 1930s. Lutyens’ memorial here at Thiepval took four years to construct and its inauguration in 1932 is today seen as the final act of closure on the War for the British State
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