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Brian Watson

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Reference number
2013/8928
Name
Brian Watson
Collection
Object type
  • Person
Completeness
36%
  • Biography

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    Biography
    Brian Watson has worked in several of the world’s most successful advertising agencies. He started working at Foote, Cone and Belding (FCB) as a Creative Director in 1973. FCB held the contract for creating London Transport advertising and it was over lunch one day that Watson and his colleague Peter Hobden developed the slogan and concept for their award-winning poster, ‘Fly the Tube’. The poster features in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
    Employment
    Designed posters for London Transport, 1978-1994
    Role
    Artist,