Alas! Smith and Milton

How not to run a design company
Howard Milton & Nick Asbury

An informative and entertaining account of the 25-year roller coaster ride that is action-packed life in the design industry.

On 6th June 1980, while the world outside was busy watching Fame, wondering who shot JR and trying to figure out the Rubik’s Cube, Smith & Milton opened its doors for business in Battersea, south London. Within a few years, the company would cut a distinctive profile in the design world, looming large among an eclectic band of businesses responsible for defining what would later become known, for better or worse, as the Designer Decade.

A quarter of a century on, Smith & Milton continues to occupy a resolutely independent position at the heart of London’s design community, having witnesses the highs and lows of a fascinating but notoriously fickle business – and somehow lived to tell the tale.

HOWARD MILTON is the founder of Smith & Milton. He is recognised as one of the leading commercial designers of the past two decades. NICK ASBURY is a writer specialising in marketing and branding work.

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