Take Me To Your Dealer
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Sheffield (made)
- Date:
1995 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Morton, Paul (artist)
Hot Frog Graphics (Design studio) - Materials and Techniques:
colour offset lithograph
- Credit Line:
Given by GB Posters and Publications Ltd.
- Museum number:
E.441-1999
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3H, shelf 3
The poster 'Take me to your dealer' produced in 1995 illustrates popular imagery drawn from youth culture, and is designed for the youth/student audience as wall art for interiors. It is one of many graphic expressions of 'Alien' culture, inspired by science fiction films such as 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' made in 1977 and TV shows such as 'The X-Files' first aired in 1993, where abductions by aliens is the theme. There are also references to drug culture. By 1998 the poster had sold in excess of 320,000 copies worldwide.
