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How To Play the Environment Game

Poster
1973 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers)
CTD Printers Ltd. (printers)
Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers)
Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed and published)

Colour screen print poster advertising 'How To Play the Environment Game', an Arts Council exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 12 April - 24 June 1973. The design depicts six 'house-shaped' blocks (similar to those used in the game 'Monopoly') in a vertical stack, with white text above, all against a red ground.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleHow To Play the Environment Game (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour screen print
Colour Screen Print
Brief description
'How To Play the Environment Game'. Colour screen print poster advertising an Arts Council exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 12 April - 24 June 1973. Designed by Alan Fletcher of Pentagram Design Ltd., Great Britain, 1973.
Physical description
Colour screen print poster advertising 'How To Play the Environment Game', an Arts Council exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 12 April - 24 June 1973. The design depicts six 'house-shaped' blocks (similar to those used in the game 'Monopoly') in a vertical stack, with white text above, all against a red ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.1cm
  • Width: 50.8cm
Measurements taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Credit line
Given by Pentagram Design Ltd
Subjects depicted
Environmental Impact
Text
Houses
Game Pieces
Bibliographic reference
Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number
30/C10 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.18-1986

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Record createdNovember 20, 2008
Record URL
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