Editing Speedbird (section)

==Design significance==
[[File:Daily herald.jpg|thumb|160px|right|[[Edward McKnight Kauffer]]'s 1917 poster for the ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]'']]
Theyre Lee-Elliott was a graphic artist and painter working in [[London]] in the 1930s.

The Speedbird is among his best known works. The minimalist, stylish and [[avant-garde]] design representing a bird in flight it is instantly recognisable and has a timelessly modern appeal.<ref>David H. T. Scott, Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-text, Liverpool University Press, 2010, Chapter 2.</ref>

Lee-Elliott was influenced by [[Vorticism]], particularly the work of [[Edward McKnight Kauffer]]. The logo echoes Kauffer's angular bird forms in his 1918 poster for the ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]''.<ref name=WHoD>{{citation |pages=128–129 |title=World History of Design |chapter=Great Britain 1918–1939 |author=Victor Margolin |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2015 |isbn=9781472569288}}</ref>

Other notable works by Lee-Elliott include posters for the [[London Underground]] and the [[Airmail]] logo.<ref name="morgan" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Airline : identity, design and culture|year=2000|publisher=Laurence King|location=London|isbn=1856692051|author=Lovegrove, designed by Keith}}</ref> Many of his paintings and original artworks are in the collection of the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].