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The Mill

Poster
ca 1990 (designed and printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Siobhan Keaney's work is closely aligned with Dutch graphic designers such as Studio Dumbar. She challenges the traditional rules of graphic design and explores free-form techniques that reject a conventional grid format.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Mill (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on paper
Brief description
Siobhan Keaney (Design) and Robert Shackleton (Photography)
British Poster advertising the Mill a post-production company for the media, early 1990s
Physical description
Irregular shaped poster advertising a media post production company. The poster depicts an abstracted photograph of a tangle of wires and cables. Printed over this are smaller images and text running in several directions in a free form layout.
Dimensions
  • Height: 61cm
  • Width: 92cm
Style
Credit line
Given by the Design Museum
Summary
Siobhan Keaney's work is closely aligned with Dutch graphic designers such as Studio Dumbar. She challenges the traditional rules of graphic design and explores free-form techniques that reject a conventional grid format.
Collection
Accession number
E.602-1998

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Record createdFebruary 24, 2009
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