ARK: The Journal of the Royal College of Art, No. 12

ARK was a style and design journal created by students at the Royal College of Art. In a recent monograph, Rick Poynor wrote:

ARK has become a vivid historical document. It records, narrates, evokes and recalls its moment (or succession of moments) with energy, eloquence and insight. There were other contemporary British magazines about visual subjects with elements of content or design in common—Motif, Typographica, the short-lived Uppercase, even The Architectural Review—but . . . none of them could match ARK’s twists and turns, its visual conceits and coups de théâtre, or its eclecticism of content during its heyday from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s.

We agree. This thing is impressively neat with all sorts of illustrations and ads and lettering from another time and place. And in this one we noticed and early illustration by a pre-Pentagram Alan Fletcher.