Green Line Coach Map. Part of a series produced in 1963. The series of three maps, with the colourful vignettes, was only issued for a short period, the year of 1963. After that they were discontinued. John Finnie was well known in the 1960s as a graphic artist, and is only now being re-discovered and his art is now starting to be appreciated by a new generation.
Map drawn by B G Lewis.
Illustrations by John Finnie.
John Finnie was an illustrator and designer who trained at Leicester College of Art. He went to London to work for the Iliffe Press and subsequently joined the Publicity Design Unit of the Wiggins Teape Group of Paper Manufacturers. Finney was elected a Member of the Society of Industrial Artists & Designers in 1958. During 1960-63 he worked full-time in freelance practice, work included being flown to Hong Kong in 1962 to produce a series of drawings showing Government development projects for the SPHERE magazine. Finney also spent a year at Wolverhampton College of Art lecturing in the department of Graphic Design. There was a one man exhibition of his drawings in 1963.
Finney designed posters for the British Ship Building Conference, The Post Office, Shell, London Transport and other organisations. From 1976 he produced designs for engraving on glass.
