Project One: City of Radicals
The Liverpool City of Radicals 2011 celebrates a century of radicalism in Liverpool, starting from the 1911 Liverpool Transport Strike, a ground-breaking exhibition at the Bluecoat and the opening of the Liver Building to its reinvention as a cultural capital in 2008. Whilst drawing on the past it will also articulate Liverpool’s current position and its radical future…

This brand has been created to promote and identify the programme of exhibitions, events, debates and activities taking place that are based around the idea of the radical.

The font used in the brand logo is Eagle Bold, was developed by Morris Fuller Benton in the 1930s for the American National Recovery Association (NRA) for use on publicity materials. It was an all-capitals display font, cast in sizes from 18 to 96 point, and was available at least into the 1940’s. The Font Bureau copied this font in 1989 and published lower-case letters for it, followed by Book, Light and Black weights of the font.

This banner was created by David Jacques to celebrate Robert Tressell who died in Liverpool in 1911. Tressell (who was born Robert Noonan) is considered one of the great socialist figures of the twentieth century. His novel ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthr

Project One: City of Radicals
The Liverpool City of Radicals 2011 celebrates a century of radicalism in Liverpool, starting from the 1911 Liverpool Transport Strike, a ground-breaking exhibition at the Bluecoat and the opening of the Liver Building to its reinvention as a cultural capital in 2008. Whilst drawing on the past it will also articulate Liverpool’s current position and its radical future…

This brand has been created to promote and identify the programme of exhibitions, events, debates and activities taking place that are based around the idea of the radical.

The font used in the brand logo is Eagle Bold, was developed by Morris Fuller Benton in the 1930s for the American National Recovery Association (NRA) for use on publicity materials. It was an all-capitals display font, cast in sizes from 18 to 96 point, and was available at least into the 1940’s. The Font Bureau copied this font in 1989 and published lower-case letters for it, followed by Book, Light and Black weights of the font.