The festival of britain

The Festival Of Britain
Seminar

The festival was a national exhibition in Britain in the summer of 1951

held to celebrate Britain’s achievement and to boost moral.
The festival brought together designers, architects and artists to produce a number of displays and exhibitions from many different countries.

Britain Can Make It: War to Peace

Part of the display in the ‘War to Peace’ section of the ‘Britain Can Make It’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The exhibition featured a painted mural of bomb-scarred London with part of a real plane in the foreground. The exhibition designer was Maurice Kestelman.

There were still a lot of bomb site in 1951 and Britain was telling to sell itself to other countries, showing them it is still strong.

The metaphor ‘A nation as a family' is visual ideography. It conveys a message that isn’t literally true, but is persuasive. The metaphor of a family connotes bringing people together.