Colin Banks

An influential designer, his Telecom (T) identity, created for British Telecommunications when it was instituted in 1981, spawned many imitators. Its replacement by Wolff Olin's BT 'piper' was received with much derision in 1991. He received a prestigious RSA/BBC Design Award in 1990, for the paper-saving redesign of the UK's Phonebook. Banks designed the UK Post Office's distinctive 'double-line' alphabet.

References/obituaries

The Guardian's obituary by James Alexander

The Independant's obituary by Jeremy Myerson

http://www.tdc.org/news/banks.html

http://www.looksmartcrafts.com/p/articles/mi_qa3992/is_200301/ai_n9173934

http://www.myfonts.com/person/banks/colin/

John Miles Biography: http://www.penguincollectorssociety.org/studyday2005_biographies.htm

Publications

Bank's article " Pleasures of design " for Linotype co-written with John Miles:

Design for Desktop Publishing , John Miles

Banks and Miles: Thirty Years of Design Evolution, Monty Shaw, Publisher: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd (February 1993), ISBN 0853315728

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