After making a copy of a small stone tablet from Westminster Abbey, Gill's first public inscription was for a stone memorial tablet, to a Percy Joseph Hiscock, in Chichester Cathedral. He invented three different typfaces, including the popular Gill Sans font, which becme the font of choice for railway signs and the London Underground. The views promoted by Gill and Pepler in The Game and their other publications were often deliberately provocative, anti-capitalist and opposed to industrialisation. In restless retirement, Kip’s lifelong passion for vintage photos sees him launching a new arts institution. Throughout the second half of 1910, Epstein and Gill would meet on an almost daily basis, but eventually their friendship soured very badly.

Gill's experiences at Louvain, seeing the monks at prayer and hearing plainsong for the first time convinced him to become a Roman Catholic.Support from the museum sector encouraged us to think we should do this head-on rather than incrementally. At the first session in which I took part, for instance, we were presented with a wooden doll Gill carved for his daughter Petra in 1910 (she was then four. In 1905 he was elected to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and joined the Fabian Society the following year.

But we don’t have the cushion of being a national organisation: we don’t receive public funding; we are a small charity that depends on visitors and philanthropy. Initially identifying with the Arts and Crafts Movement, by 1907 he was lecturing and campaigning against the movement's perceived failings. It seems that, either the post-modern, punk 1980s were not as far from the attitudes of the interwar period, or Gill’s works simply crossed the fine line of universally understood morality. The Golden Cockerel printed four of Gill's own books and he illustrated a further thirteen works for the press.By 1907 he was writing and making speeches about the failures, both theoretical and practical, of the craft movement to resist the advance of mass-production. Later, Gill joined the Peace Pledge Union and supported the British branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

You can’t look at it and say: ‘He was a sculptor, of course he was interested in measurements and form.

He began his work as an inscription artist, inscribing lettering on numerous buildings throughout Britain, especially in churches, graveyards, and institutions. In 1937, he designed the background of the first George VI definitive stamp series for the post office.