Colour By Numbers
Record Sleeve
1983 (issued)
1983 (issued)
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Sleeve for a 12-inch long-playing record of Colour By Numbers by Culture Club. The design features photographs of the band members. Garrett combines the photogenic androgyny of lead singer Boy George and conventional ‘pin-up’ characteristics of group members with pastel coloured curvelinear forms against a dark globe to create a bust design of subtle, rotating undercurrents.
The sleeve proof carries the colours red gold and green on the female, male and asexual symbols in a response to echo the rasterfarian colours featured in the song Karma Chameleon.
Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits.
The sleeve proof carries the colours red gold and green on the female, male and asexual symbols in a response to echo the rasterfarian colours featured in the song Karma Chameleon.
Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits.
Object details
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| Title | Colour By Numbers |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithography |
| Brief description | Sleeve for a 12-inch long-playing record of 'Colour By Numbers' by Culture Club. Colour offset lithography. Design by Malcolm Garrett. Photography by Jamie Morgan. Virign Records Ltd. Great Britain. 1986. |
| Physical description | Sleeve for a 12-inch long-playing record of Colour By Numbers by Culture Club. The design features photographs of the band members. Garrett combines the photogenic androgyny of lead singer Boy George and conventional ‘pin-up’ characteristics of group members with pastel coloured curvelinear forms against a dark globe to create a bust design of subtle, rotating undercurrents. The sleeve proof carries the colours red gold and green on the female, male and asexual symbols in a response to echo the rasterfarian colours featured in the song Karma Chameleon. Lettered with date, name of group, titles and credits. |
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| Credit line | Given by Malcolm Garrett |
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| Associated object | E.1322-1990 (Set) |
| Bibliographic reference | Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. p.130 (illus.). |
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| Accession number | E.1323-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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