Natural Design. The Search for Comfort and Efficiency

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Artist/Maker	Carter Wong Design (design company) Boilerhouse Project (client) Carter, Philip (designer) Wong, Philip (designer)
Place of origin	London (designed and printed)

Poster advertising an exhibition at The Boilerhouse, Victoria and Albert Museum. The design uses a mix of illustration and photography to depict a stick figure sitting on a chair. The body of the stick figure is formed from a flexicurve ruler.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Natural Design. The Search for Comfort and Efficiency (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Printing Ink Paper Offset Lithography
Brief description	Philips, Carter Wong, Natural Design, Boilerhouse Exhibition Poster, 1986
Physical description	Poster advertising an exhibition at The Boilerhouse, Victoria and Albert Museum. The design uses a mix of illustration and photography to depict a stick figure sitting on a chair. The body of the stick figure is formed from a flexicurve ruler.
Dimensions	Height: 76cm Width: 51cm
Credit line	Given by the Photography Studio, Victoria and Albert Museum
Subject depicted	Flexicurve
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.519-1998

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Record created	February 18, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O190028/natural-design-the-search-for-poster-carter-philip/

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