Greetings Card
1985-1986 (published)
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For almost forty years from the 1960s until the partnership was wound up in 1996 graphic designer Colin Banks of the design consultancy Banks & Miles produced an unusual corporate Christmas card to send to clients and friends. It consisted of a cardboard or metal cylindrical "Christmas pot" wrapped in a printed paper sleeve designed by Banks and containing some festive or whimsical contents (sweets, a phone card, a length of "red tape") appropriately or humorously tying in with the design on the sleeve. Conceptually, Banks's seasonal multiples anticipate by almost two decades, though in a graphic design rather than "fine art" idiom, the art handling company MOMART's famous commissioning of contemporary artists to devise its own Christmas multiple which is also collected by the V&A.
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Materials and techniques | Cardboard, lithography on paper, and cotton tape |
Brief description | Christmas multiple designed by Colin Banks for Banks & Miles. |
Physical description | Cardboard tube with plastic lid and paper sleeve printed with an image of a lion and a unicorn in red and lettering in black. The tube contains a length of HMSO red cotton tape some of which protrudes through a hole in the side of the tube as though from a dispenser. |
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Production type | Limited edition |
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Credit line | Given by Colin Banks |
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Summary | For almost forty years from the 1960s until the partnership was wound up in 1996 graphic designer Colin Banks of the design consultancy Banks & Miles produced an unusual corporate Christmas card to send to clients and friends. It consisted of a cardboard or metal cylindrical "Christmas pot" wrapped in a printed paper sleeve designed by Banks and containing some festive or whimsical contents (sweets, a phone card, a length of "red tape") appropriately or humorously tying in with the design on the sleeve. Conceptually, Banks's seasonal multiples anticipate by almost two decades, though in a graphic design rather than "fine art" idiom, the art handling company MOMART's famous commissioning of contemporary artists to devise its own Christmas multiple which is also collected by the V&A. |
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Accession number | E.884-2000 |
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Record created | March 25, 2009 |
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