Get on Board London's Buses

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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'.

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

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