Patterns for The Festival of Britain
Date
circa 1951
Credits
- Festival Pattern Group Firm
- Helen Megaw Art Director
- S.M. Slade Designer
Type of Work
- Finished work 5644
- Process 109
Locations Made
- United Kingdom 179
Links
On 20 February 1946 crystallographer Helen Megaw from Birkbeck College, London, proposed an intriguing suggestion to the director of the Design Research Unit: ‘I should like to ask designers of wallpapers and fabrics to look at the patterns made available by X-ray crystallography. I am constantly being impressed by the beauty of the designs which crop up.’ Her suggestion came to fruition five years later in the Festival of Britain in the work of Festival Pattern Group. (Jackson, 5)
Pattern source, sketch, and designs made inspired by horse methaeglobin.
