My Life's Example

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Artist/Maker	FON Records (record label) Rough Trade (distributer) Designers Republic (Designer) Treebound Story (Band)
Place of origin	England (made)

Cardboard cover sleeve for the 7" vinyl record single 'My Life's Example' recorded by Treebound Story. The cover features the band name and song title lettered in black, an abstract green line drawing and a grey branch of thorns (images repeated on the centre labels of the vinyl record), on a white ground. The reverse features credits, logos etc. in black text, on a white ground.

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Categories	Labels & Packaging Prints Music
Object type	Record Sleeve
Title	My Life's Example (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Offset lithograph in black and green on cardboard Cardboard Offset Lithography
Brief description	Cardboard cover sleeve for the 7" vinyl record single 'My Life's Example' recorded by Treebound Story. Design by the Designers Republic. Published by Fon Records. Distributed by Rough Trade, England, 1986.
Physical description	Cardboard cover sleeve for the 7" vinyl record single 'My Life's Example' recorded by Treebound Story. The cover features the band name and song title lettered in black, an abstract green line drawing and a grey branch of thorns (images repeated on the centre labels of the vinyl record), on a white ground. The reverse features credits, logos etc. in black text, on a white ground.
Dimensions	Approx height: 7in Approx width: 7in
Credit line	Given by The Designers Republic
Object history	The design is inspired by the book covers of The Penguin Modern Classics Series.
Subject depicted	Thorn
Associated objects	E.819-1990 (Set) E.847-1990
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.818-1990

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Record created	February 18, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O189253/my-lifes-example-record-sleeve-designers-republic/

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