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Trained at Manchester College of Art and the Royal College of Art, Dan Fern has worked extensively across all areas of visual communications. His graphic works include a set of stamps for the Royal Mail, posters for the London Underground and a poster commemorating the 100th anniversary in 2001 of the death of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, which has been displayed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In addition, his works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Tate Northern in Liverpool and the Smithsonian Institute in New York, as well as being in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The 'Simply' series of posters were commissioned by London Transport for their principal marketing campaigns between 1995 and 2000 . The campaigns were instigated by the then Director of Marketing for London Transport, Geoff Ellerton, and his Head of Advertising and Publicity, Charlie Edelman. Every commission was used for posters, leaflets, and various other marketing activities and many of the images used were highly popular with the travelling public. Shortly after the formation of Transport for London, the 'Simply' campaign terminated.
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