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Postcard

1989 (made)
Artist/Maker
EMI Records (publisher)
Parlophone (publisher)
The Designers Republic (design agency)
Place of origin
England (designed)
Great Britain (made)

Limited edition postcard; Video-still showing a blurred image of a man (possibly a police officer?); Included with Cabaret Voltaire's 7" vinyl record 'Hypnotised'; Still taken from the video 'Crackdown’, directed by Peter Care; Colour print on cardboard.

Object details

Categories
Labels & Packaging
Prints
Music
Object type
Postcard
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Cardboard
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Limited edition postcard; Video-still showing a blurred image of a man; Included with Cabaret Voltaire's 7" vinyl record 'Hypnotised'; Still taken from the video 'Crackdown', directed by Peter Care; Colour print on cardboard; Designers Republic; England; 1989.
Physical description
Limited edition postcard; Video-still showing a blurred image of a man (possibly a police officer?); Included with Cabaret Voltaire's 7" vinyl record 'Hypnotised'; Still taken from the video 'Crackdown’, directed by Peter Care; Colour print on cardboard.
Marks and inscriptions
STILLS FROM THE VIDEO 'CRACKDOWN' DIRECTED BY PETER CARE MADE FOR SOME BIZARRE / VIRGIN 1984
Credit line
Given by The Designers Republic
Object history
The designers have used a stylised 'staring eye' motif printed in silver to evoke the state of a hypnotised individual. It appears in various sizes and numbers on all formats of packaging relating to the recording 'Hypnotised'.
Production
Depicts a video still from a video made for Some Bizarre / Virgin in 1984.
Subject depicted
Man
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.806-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
Record URL
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