Professor Lord – 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 Emma Carlow. There are also works by other former students, including Old Bear author and illustrator Jane Hissey, and Chris Riddell, 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.