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Colour By Numbers

Record
1983 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

12-inch LP picture disc proof for Colour By Numbers by Culture Club. The design features photpgraphs of the band members. Garrett combines the photogenic androgyny of lead singer Boy George and conventional ‘pin-up’ characteristics of group members with pastel coloured curvelinear forms against a dark globe to create a bust design of subtle, rotating undercurrents.

Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleColour By Numbers
Materials and techniques
vinyl record
Brief description
12-inch long-playing picture disc proof for 'Colour By Numbers' by Culture Club. Colour offset lithography. Design by Malcolm Garrett. Photography by Jamie Morgan. Virign Records Ltd. Great Britain. 1986.
Physical description
12-inch LP picture disc proof for Colour By Numbers by Culture Club. The design features photpgraphs of the band members. Garrett combines the photogenic androgyny of lead singer Boy George and conventional ‘pin-up’ characteristics of group members with pastel coloured curvelinear forms against a dark globe to create a bust design of subtle, rotating undercurrents.

Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits.
Dimensions
  • Approx diameter: 12in
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits.
Credit line
Given by Malcolm Garrett
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. p.130 (illus.).
Collection
Accession number
E.1322-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
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