Poster
1989 (made)
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Poster for Polaroid 600 plus film, featuring a multi-coloured image of splashes of colour mirrored on either side of the page (as though the paper was daubed with paint on one side and the paper was folded to transfer the image onto the other side). The image created is known as a Rorschach test, 'designed by Psychologists to get patients to say what they think an abstract form represents'.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Poster for Polaroid 600 Plus Film, featuring a Rorschach text, designed by Alan Fletcher, Pentagram; British, 1989. |
| Physical description | Poster for Polaroid 600 plus film, featuring a multi-coloured image of splashes of colour mirrored on either side of the page (as though the paper was daubed with paint on one side and the paper was folded to transfer the image onto the other side). The image created is known as a Rorschach test, 'designed by Psychologists to get patients to say what they think an abstract form represents'. |
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| 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. Adapted from 18th century ideogram. |
| Bibliographic reference | Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996, p. 30, illus. p. 40-41. |
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| Accession number | E.425-2003 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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