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Poster

1992 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers)
CTD Printers Ltd. (printers)
Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers)
Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Poster for Eighteenth Icograda Student Seminar with the word 'images' in blue against a white background in two rows of three letters, and more text in red below.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Screenprint on paper
Ink
Paper
Screen Printing
Brief description
Poster for Eighteenth Icograda Student Seminar, designed by Alan Fletcher/Pentagram; British, 1992
Physical description
Poster for Eighteenth Icograda Student Seminar with the word 'images' in blue against a white background in two rows of three letters, and more text in red below.
Dimensions
  • Height: 84cm
  • Width: 59.5cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • images (Blue in two rows of three letters, taking up most of sheet)
  • DESIGN ALAN FLETCHER (PENTAGRAM). PRINT G&B ARTS (Vertically in red, top right corner)
  • Eighteenth Icograda Student Seminar 10/11 February '92 / The speakers are Malcolm Garrett, Benoît Jacques, / Javier Mariscal, Paula Scher, Erik Spiekermann and Michael Wolff. / The Icograda Student Seminars have annually attracted / some 1200 design students from all over Europe. / They are the most important international gathering of / students and their lecturers. This years the programme / has additional speakers and events. It is also open to / practising designers for the first time. (In red, lower left)
  • [lecture programme, venue information] (In red lower left)
  • icograda International Council of Graphic Design Associations (In red lower 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.
Historical context
For more on Alan Fletcher's work see Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Subject depicted
Typography
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.414-2003

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Record createdMay 18, 2009
Record URL
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