G&B Arts at the Design Museum

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Artist/Maker	G. & B. Arts Ltd (printer) Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin	London (made)

Poster for G&B Arts retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum in 1993, featuring a handprint in multicolours.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	G&B Arts at the Design Museum (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Screenprint on paper Ink Paper Screenprinting
Brief description	Poster for G&B Arts retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum, designed by Alan Fletcher; British, 1993.
Physical description	Poster for G&B Arts retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum in 1993, featuring a handprint in multicolours.
Dimensions	Height: 84.2cm Width: 59.7cm
Marks and inscriptions	Screen printed by G&B Arts 071 254 4761 / Designed by Alan Fletcher (Bottom right) An exhibition / of 100 screen / printed posters / 20th August to the / 31st October 1993 / [venue, opening hours, trasnport details] / G&A Arts / at the / Design / Museum / A Retrospective 1959-1993 / Posters by: / [names of artists] (Down left side) Design Renaissance/Glasgow/September 1993 Alan Fletcher. Printed by CTD Printers Ltd (Vertically, bottom left)
Credit line	Given by Alan Fletcher
Object history	Part of a gift from Alan Fletcher of his archive to represent his design output from the 1970s to the present day.
Historical context	p74 Beware Wet Paint Alan Fletcher 'resurrected the black-and-white handprint originally used for Munich, squidged different colours onto an overlay, and sent it off to be proofed'.
Subject depicted	Hand-Print
Bibliographic reference	Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.394-2003

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Record created	June 15, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O249063/gb-arts-at-the-design-poster-fletcher-alan/

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