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Pentagram‘s Harry Pearce has designed an elegant tribute to members of staff at London’s Science Museum who died during the First and Second World Wars

The memorial takes the form of a wall-mounted plaque made from a single piece of cast iron. Each layer represents a world war with ‘19’ serving as a link between the two sets of dates ‘14-18’ and ‘39-45’. A single cross is cut through both layers.

This is the wooden ‘cast proof’ used in production: