He was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read theology but was a high jump champion, won a Blue for lawn tennis and represented England at table tennis.

[2] He was a pioneer of informational posters which presented statistics in graphical form[3] and created notable Art Deco logos including Imperial Airways' Speedbird and the Post Office's symbols for air mail and the telephone.

[5] He also worked on the scenery at Sadler's Wells Theatre and painted the ballet dancers there.

In October of that year, he witnessed the marriage of conductor Constant Lambert and artist Isabel Delmer.

[6] After an illness in the 1950s, he produced religious art such as The Agony[7] and a selection was exhibited in Paris in 1965.