Chris Ashworth balances a career as a sought-after creative director with a second life as an experimental designer and typographer, a path he first took in the early 1990s, designing flyers for clubs in the north of England. His inimitable hands-on approach to graphic design, exemplified in his work on two classics of '90s music magazine culture--Blah Blah Blah in the UK (designed with Neil Fletcher) and Ray Gun in the US--has won him legions of fans. His creative approach, termed "Swiss Grit," "is a blend of Swiss principles fused with a typographic street aesthetic that brings some soul," he says. Ashworth sees his work--craft-based, handmade--as a counterpoint to our screen-dependent digital culture. It's the manifestation of an alternative view that argues that creative development away from the computer offers unique and precious merits. Disorder celebrates this approach to graphic design over nearly five hundred pages. Beginning with his influential work for Ray Gun and covering a wide range of printed and published work from 1997 to the present day, the book is concerned with the human craft of creativity and analog design, the details, imperfections, and happy accidents. An AI-free zone.

Disorder: Swiss Grit Vol. II

Arts & Photography

ASHWORTH, Chris

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

Action Stations 5. Military airfields of the South-West

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

P.Stephens

Military airfields of the Central South and South-East (Action stations)

History

Military

Avro's Maritime Heavyweight: The Shackleton

Aston

Encyclopaedia of Modern Royal Air Force Squadrons

Haynes Publishing Group

The role of RAF Bomber Command in the Allies' fight against Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' is still the subject of much controversy. Yet, whatever one's view of the campaign as a whole, nobody can question the immense courage and bravery of the aircrews who risked their lives, day after day, night after night. As history recalls, more than 55,000 men made the ultimate sacrifice during the fight for freedom. 
Bomber Command was officially formed in 1936, but as the 1930s gave way to the 1940s, it soon became clear that the Command could not match the might of a resurgent Germany on the march. 
The early years of the Second World War highlighted Bomber Command's inadequacies, but gradually the tide was turned. Vast aerial armadas of bombers took the fight to Hitler while increased accuracy, larger weapons and more effective tactics were developed which enabled RAF Bomber Command, in conjunction with the US 8th Air Force, to pound the heartland of Germany into final submission. 
Peacetime brought the inevitable cutbacks and a proud force was whittled down to a shadow of its former self. However, re-equipment with a potent force of V-bombers meant that Bomber Command was able to play a key role in the 'Cold War', and when the Command was disbanded in 1968 its supporters could rightly claim that it had been a major contributor to maintaining the peace. 
Here, for the first time, the story of Bomber Command is told from start to finish. Meticulous research by aviation historian Chris Ashworth offers a unique insight into the history of a force that was at the heart of the RAF's fighting prowess for some three decades.

Raf Bomber Command: 1936-1968

Haynes Pubns

Offers an insight into the RAF Coastal Command throughout its 33-year history - little known by the public, or understood by the rest of the Royal Air Force. The book is a companion volume to RAF Fighter Command. By the author of the Encyclopaedia of Modern Royal Air Force Squadron.

RAF Coastal Command: 1936-1969

HAYNES @ PUBLICATIONS INC

Action Stations 5: Military Airfields of the South-west (Action Stations)

Europe

Action Stations 9: Military Airfields of the Central South and South-East (Action Stations)

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