Fact Twenty Two. Energy Work & Power
Poster
1990 (designed and printed)
1990 (designed and printed)
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Emigre Graphics was founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko in 1984. Their work challenged the traditional rules of graphic design, questioning conventional ideas about layout and legibility and making pioneering use of digital technology. Emigre included an alternative-culture graphic-design magazine, a digital type foundry and a music label. This poster promotes an album by the band Fact Twenty Two. Text and images are overlaid with one layer showing through the next and the design is an example of VanderLans's organic approach to layout and composition.
Object details
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Title | Fact Twenty Two. Energy Work & Power (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph on uncoated paper |
Brief description | Energy Work and Power U.S. Poster advertising the magazine Emigre, a graphic design project produced at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Michigan, early 1990s |
Physical description | Poster promoting an album by band Fact Twenty Two. The poster depicts photographic images of daisies inside circles of pink and yellow. These are overlaid with black circles and overlapping text in yellow, pink and bold black The Emigre logo appears at the bottom left of the poster. |
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Credit line | Given by the Design Museum |
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Summary | Emigre Graphics was founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko in 1984. Their work challenged the traditional rules of graphic design, questioning conventional ideas about layout and legibility and making pioneering use of digital technology. Emigre included an alternative-culture graphic-design magazine, a digital type foundry and a music label. This poster promotes an album by the band Fact Twenty Two. Text and images are overlaid with one layer showing through the next and the design is an example of VanderLans's organic approach to layout and composition. |
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Accession number | E.603-1998 |
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Record created | February 21, 2009 |
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