THE son and daughter of one of the country's most celebrated graphic designers put the finishing touches to an exhibition of their late father's work yesterday.

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is to stage a display of the works of Abram Games, who created many of the most memorable visual images of wartime and post-war Britain.

Opening on Friday and running until June 5, the exhibition is called Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means.

From the propaganda posters he designed as Official War Artist during the Second World War, and his post-war advertisements for BEA, London Transport and Guinness, to the 1951 Festival of Britain emblem and his pioneering screen identity for the BBC, he created a host of striking and often humorous images.

A gifted draughtsman, he applied his philosophy of "maximum meaning, minimum means" to devising inventive combinations of text and images.

Yesterday his son, Daniel, and daughter, Naomi, were on hand to help stage the exhibition. Drawn from the estate of Abram Games, the display traces the development of his famous images.

Born in Whitechapel, in 1914, he was educated at schools in East London before winning a place at St Martin's School of Art in 1930 - only to drop out after two terms.

Continuing his education at evening classes, he worked as an assistant to his photographer father and then as a studio boy in a commercial art studio.

He made his name during the Second World War as the Official War Artist. He died in 1996.