How not to do it
John Sutherland, 22 July 1993
The British Library: For Scholarship, Research and Innovation: Strategic Objectives for the Year 2000
British Library, 39 pp., £5, June 1993,0 7123 0321 9 Show More
British Library, 39 pp., £5, June 1993,
The Library of the British Museum: Retrospective Essays on the Department of Printed Books
edited by P.R. Harris.
British Library, 305 pp., £35, June 1993,0 7123 0242 5 Show More
edited by P.R. Harris.
British Library, 305 pp., £35, June 1993,
“... as it would in conversation, ‘ingenious’, but ‘revenue-generating’. ‘Support’ means ‘cash-subsidy’. In other words, ‘we’ll flog everything that is not nailed down.’ The words in this document are less creative than the 11 full-plate pictures. These have been skilfully thematised by the designer Frances Salisbury ... ”