Pinball
Print
c.1968 (produced)
c.1968 (produced)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Polypops Products date back to 1967 when Polycell displayed a range of cardboard prototype furniture at the Design Centre and then tested its market as Childsplay furniture at Hamley's toy shop. After more work on developing a laminate to provide a scratch-proof finish, establishing Polyboard in the summer of 1968, a range of children's toys were made from it. These 2 sheets are rare survivals from a series of wrapping papers for children in poster format designed by David Fairbrother-Roe (working under the name ‘Dave Roe’). All the papers in the series represented either jukeboxes or pinball machines.
Fairbrother-Roe (d.2013), a graduate of the Royal College of Art, is best known today as the graphic designer for the Isle of Wight Music Festivals, for which he designed tickets, programmes and posters, 1968-70.
Fairbrother-Roe (d.2013), a graduate of the Royal College of Art, is best known today as the graphic designer for the Isle of Wight Music Festivals, for which he designed tickets, programmes and posters, 1968-70.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Pinball |
| Materials and techniques | Offset litho |
| Brief description | Sheet of Pinball wrapping paper, designed by Dave Roe (David Fairbrother-Roe) and produced by Polypops Products Ltd., London, c.1968 |
| Physical description | Sheet of shiny paper printed with an image of a pinball machine in pink, purple, green etc. |
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| Summary | Polypops Products date back to 1967 when Polycell displayed a range of cardboard prototype furniture at the Design Centre and then tested its market as Childsplay furniture at Hamley's toy shop. After more work on developing a laminate to provide a scratch-proof finish, establishing Polyboard in the summer of 1968, a range of children's toys were made from it. These 2 sheets are rare survivals from a series of wrapping papers for children in poster format designed by David Fairbrother-Roe (working under the name ‘Dave Roe’). All the papers in the series represented either jukeboxes or pinball machines. Fairbrother-Roe (d.2013), a graduate of the Royal College of Art, is best known today as the graphic designer for the Isle of Wight Music Festivals, for which he designed tickets, programmes and posters, 1968-70. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.227-2017 |
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| Record created | January 30, 2017 |
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