Eye for Industry

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Artist/Maker	Birdsall, Derek (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (designed)

Poster advertising an exhibition of work by Royal Designers for Industry held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 26 November 1986 - 1 February 1987. The poster, printed predominantly in black, depicts a stylised eye with a blue iris beside a red oblong. The red oblong is representative of the letter 'I' in 'eye for Industry'.

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Categories	Posters Prints Advertising History of the V&A
Object type	Poster
Title	Eye for Industry (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour screenprint on paper Paper Printing Ink Screenprinting
Brief description	Poster by Derek Birdsall, advertising and exhibition held at the V&A entitled 'Eye for Industry', colour screenprint, Great Britain, 1987
Physical description	Poster advertising an exhibition of work by Royal Designers for Industry held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 26 November 1986 - 1 February 1987. The poster, printed predominantly in black, depicts a stylised eye with a blue iris beside a red oblong. The red oblong is representative of the letter 'I' in 'eye for Industry'.
Dimensions	Height: 75.9cm Width: 50.6cm Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Marks and inscriptions	'Designed by Derek Birdsall. RDI' (Lettered)
Subject depicted	Eyes
Association	Victoria & Albert Museum
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2160-1991

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Record created	March 4, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O196496/eye-for-industry-poster-birdsall-derek/

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