Exhibitions + Interiors
1957
1973
Bridges
1977
1983
Product
1981
1995
Engineering Design
2006
2017
Interior Design
2005
2011
Exhibitions
1961
1969
General
1944
1951
Textiles
1962
1987
Graphic Design
1994
2005
New Media
2000
2013
Stamps
1970
1989
Photo of  David Gentleman

David Gentleman was born in 1930 to artist parents, and studied at the St Albans School of Art and the RCA. Since then he has lived and worked in London as an artist and designer. In the fifties he began wood engraving and book illustration, and in the sixties he designed his first stamps. In the seventies he held the first of many exhibitions of watercolours, made lithographs and screen-prints and designed posters, symbols and the Eleanor Cross mural in Charing Cross underground station. During the eighties and nineties he wrote and illustrated books about Britain, Paris, India and Italy, and in 2002 Artwork about his own design work. From 2003 on he designed many anti-Iraq-war march placards. Since 2012 he has published three books on Suffolk and London. His work is represented in the British Museum, Tate Britain, the V&A and the Design Museum.

RDInsights: David Gentleman
David Gentleman RDI is a well-known book illustrator and stamp and poster designer, listen to this podcast for an expert-led discussion about the discipline
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Battle of Britain stamps for the Post Office, 1965
Battle of Britain stamps for the Post Office
1965
Wood engraved mural in Charing Cross underground station, 1979
Wood engraved mural in Charing Cross underground station
1979
Watercolour for My Town: An Artist’s Life in London, Particular Books, 2020
Watercolour for My Town: An Artist’s Life in London, Particular Books
2020
General
1947
1959
General Design
1969
1985
Packaging
1937
1955
Engineering
1983
1991
Furniture Design
1978
2003
Graphics
1947
1967
Packaging + Graphics
1959
1971
Glass + Stained Glass
1936
1941
Products + Industrial
1961
1975
Ceramics + Glass
1981
2001
Films
1939
1963
Fashion Design
1988
2015
Ceramics + Glass
1995
2009
Product Design
2008
2021
Designing with Light
2012
2019
Naval Architecture
1986
1997
Typography
1940
1953
Engineering Product
1968
1981
Dress
1972
1993
Goldsmithing
1936
1937
Glass, Pottery + Silver
1936
1945
Theatre Design
1991
1999
Interiors
1939
1961
Engineering Design
2012
2023
Commercial Art
1936
1939
Light Fittings
1940
1949
Furniture
1940
1947
Furniture
1944
1957
Lettering
1940
1943
Typography
1965
1979
Aircraft
1943
1965
Interior + Ships
1971
1977
Structural Engineering Design
1998
2007
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