Richardson, R. C. "Cultural Mapping in 1951: The Festival of Britain Regional Guidebooks" Literature & History 24#2 (2015) pp 53–72. Lettering and type design featured prominently in the graphic style of the Festival and was overseen by a typography panel including the lettering historian Nicolete Gray. [40] A typeface for the Festival, Festival Titling, [41] was specially commissioned and designed by Philip Boydell. It was based on condensed sans-serif capitals and had a three-dimensional form making it suitable for use in exhibition display typography. [42] It has been said to bear "a vague resemblance to bunting". [43] The lettering on the Royal Festival Hall and the temporary Festival building on the South Bank was a bold, sloping slab serif letter form, determined by Gray and her colleagues, including Charles Hasler and Gordon Cullen, [40] illustrated in Gray's Lettering on Buildings (1960) and derived in part from typefaces used in the early 19th century. [44] It has been described as a "turn to a jauntier and more decorative visual language" that was "part of a wider move towards the appreciation of vernacular arts and the peculiarities of English culture". [45] The lettering in the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion was designed by John Brinkley. [46] [47]

The Festival Pleasure Gardens were created to present a lighter side of the Festival of Britain. They were erected in Battersea Park, a few miles from the South Bank Exhibition. Attractions included:An Exhibition of Sixty Large Paintings commissioned for the Festival of Britain" ("60 Paintings for '51"), Suffolk Galleries, organised by the Arts Council, prize awarded to William Gear; [51] The 1951 Festival of Britain crown is definitely an intriguing coin given that it was one of only two crowns minted during the reign of King George VI. Hoon, Will. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996). East End 1851: a Festival of Britain exhibition by arrangement with the Arts Council, 1951, Whitechapel Art Gallery. Scott-Moncrieff, George (1951), Living Traditions of Scotland, His Majesty's Stationery Office for The Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee

Mariel Grant, "'Working for the Yankee Dollar': Tourism and the Festival of Britain as Stimuli for Recovery," Journal of British Studies 45#3 (2006) PP 581-601The re-design of Parliament Square by George Grey Wornum in preparation for the Festival of Britain year [65] William Feaver, "Festival Star", in Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier, A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951, London, Thames and Hudson, 1976 ISBN 0-500-01165-6, p. 54 Featherstone, Simon (2009). Featherstone, S., Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity , 2009, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748623655 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Seaside. ( Architects and Designers: Eric Brown and Peter Chamberlain. Theme Convener. A. Hippisley Coxe.)

Telecinema. ( Architect: Wells Coates. Programme and Presentation: J. D. Ralph and R. J. Spottiswoode.)Yalcinkaya, Gunseli (3 October 2018). "Richard Littler creates satirical poster for UK's proposed "Festival of Brexit Britain" ". Dezeen.