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

Poster featuring the word party with letters blocked in different colours and jumbled together.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Materials and techniques	Screenprint on paper Ink Paper Screen Printing
Brief description	Poster for Laura Gross' 21st party, designed by Pentagram; British, 1983.
Physical description	Poster featuring the word party with letters blocked in different colours and jumbled together.
Dimensions	Height: 84cm Width: 59.5cm
Marks and inscriptions	PARTY (The image) DESIGN PENTAGRAM (Vertically, top right) LAURA'S 21ST (Bottom, centred) Burkes, 10 Clifford Street, London / Saturday 26 November 1983 / 8pm to 3am. Black tie. (Bottom, centred)
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	Lettering Hands
Bibliographic reference	Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.397-2003

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Record created	June 19, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O250965/poster-pentagram-design-ltd/

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