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Lots of Love

Poster
1985 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers)
CTD Printers Ltd. (printers)
Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers)
Place of origin
London (designed)

Poster for IBM Charitable Contributions Campaign with white clothes peg against grey background with quotation above: "all my clothes have had other people in them".

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleLots of Love (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Screenprint on paper
Ink
Paper
Screen Printing
Brief description
Poster for IBM Charitable Contributions Campaign, designed by Pentagram; British, ca. 1978-1996
Physical description
Poster for IBM Charitable Contributions Campaign with white clothes peg against grey background with quotation above: "all my clothes have had other people in them".
Dimensions
  • Height: 83.5cm
  • Width: 59.5cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • all my clothes have had other / people in them / Paola, age 7 (In black above image)
  • IBM Charitable Contribution Campaign Design/Pentagram (In black top right corner, vertically)
  • Paola, age 7, from Lots of Love, a book of children's letters by Nanette Newman (In black bottom left corner)
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.
Subject depicted
Pegs
Bibliographic reference
Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.416-2003

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Record createdMay 13, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O232209/lots-of-love-poster-pentagram-design-ltd/
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