– formerly Professor of Illustration, and now Professor Emeritus - designed and ran the university's Sequential Illustration/Design MA for many years. He gained wider fame for the illustrations he created for classic works by authors including Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and James Joyce – as well as his own 1972 picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich, now regarded as a worldwide classic of children's literature.
The museum is showing never-seen-before drafts from The Giant Jam Sandwich, plus a quirky interactive installation of a giant jam sandwich created by Lord’s former Brighton student . There are also works by other former students, including Old Bear author and illustrator , and , an Honorary Doctorate of the university who has combined a career as a children's author (he was made UK Children’s Laureate in 2015) with searing political cartooning since the 1990s.