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Language Problems

Record Sleeve
1982 (published)
Artist/Maker
Stiff Records (publisher)
Saville, Peter (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (published)

Card cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Language Problems' recorded by Electric Guitars for Stiff Records. Both sides of the sleeve feature sixteen letters/symbols printed in green, blue, yellow and pink. The ground is black with a spot varnish design of scraps of newspaper articles written in a variety of languages.

Object details

Categories
Labels & Packaging
Music
Object type
Record Sleeve
TitleLanguage Problems
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph (red, green, blue and yellow on black) with spot varnish on thin card
Card
Offset Lithography
Brief description
Cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Language Problems' recorded by Electric Guitars. Cover design by Peter Saville. Published by Stiff Records, Great Britain, 1982.
Physical description
Card cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Language Problems' recorded by Electric Guitars for Stiff Records. Both sides of the sleeve feature sixteen letters/symbols printed in green, blue, yellow and pink. The ground is black with a spot varnish design of scraps of newspaper articles written in a variety of languages.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.6cm
  • Width: 31cm
Measured by DH 17/02/2011
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered in white with band name, song titles, credits etc.
Credit line
Given by Brett Wickens (Peter Saville Associates)
Subjects depicted
Newspapers
Letters (Signs)
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2298-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O191242/language-problems-record-sleeve-saville-peter/
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