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Get on Board London's Buses

Poster
1993 (made)
Artist/Maker
London Transport Board (issued by)
Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Poster with multi-coloured vertical stripes and numbers below and two black handles above, representing simultaneously a barcode and a shopping bag. Below is the word 'shopping'.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
Titles
  • Get on Board London's Buses (generic title)
  • Shopping (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on paper
Ink
Paper
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Poster for London Buses, designed by Alan Fletcher; British, after 1970
Physical description
Poster with multi-coloured vertical stripes and numbers below and two black handles above, representing simultaneously a barcode and a shopping bag. Below is the word 'shopping'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.5cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • shopping (Centered below barcode)
  • Get on board [underground logo] London's Buses. (In black across bottom, centered.)
  • Alan Fletcher (Top right corner vertically, in black)
  • LB009 (Bottom left corner in black)
  • 501234567890000 ('Barcode' numbers, multicoloured, part of image)
Credit line
Given by Alan Fletcher
Object history
Part of a gift from Alan Fletcher of his archive to represent his design output from the 1970s to the present day.
Subjects depicted
Shopping Bag
Barcodes
Bibliographic reference
Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.432-2003

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Record createdMay 13, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O232020/get-on-board-londons-buses-poster-fletcher-alan/
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