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The World Must Change

"Demonstrate!",
poster for the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1978
"Lubetkin & Tecton",
poster for Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982

David King: The World Must Change

Exhibition: 16 September - 22 October 2022

From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, the British graphic designer David King’s protest posters gave left-wing causes a powerfully persuasive new identity. His extra-bold designs for the Anti- Nazi League, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Union of Journalists, and other organisations presented their messages with a graphic force and conviction that no one could ignore. King was a master of hard-hitting typography with an equally assured command of photography.

This exhibition will display key posters from his body of work, as well as his unmissable covers for City Limits, a radical weekly London listings magazine, which work like mini-posters.

Curated by Rick Poynor
Exhibition designed by Simon Esterson

More information about David King: davidkingdesigner.com

Image credits: "Demonstrate!", poster for the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1978; "Lubetkin & Tecton", poster for Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982