Alan Fletcher’s retrospective has travelled not just ‘north of the river’ but to the real North and is now residing in the CUBE gallery, Manchester. Packed to the rafters with some of the most highly regarded design examples of the last fifty years you certainly get your money’s worth at a very northern price of £4.50.

Significant highlights include video interviews with Fletcher as he guides you around the studio he built during a career that saw him help establish not only Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in the 60’s but also Pentagram in the 70’s. This is where some of the best work lies as business cards, letter heads and logotypes from countless projects adorn the walls. This more conventional but certainly no less spectacular work shares space with the playful ‘Fletcherisms’ many remember him for and makes for a jolly good afternoon of inspiring design gazing.

The exhibition runs until 3rd April
See cube.org.uk for details.

Lovely stuff.