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Christmas and New Year card

Print
1999 (made)
Artist/Maker
Branson Coates (designers)
Place of origin
London (made)

The greetings card can be an effective medium for publicity and corporate identity. This example, a millennium and Christmas greeting for Branson Coates, designers of the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, South East London, wittily juxtaposes a scene inside the dome with a conventional representation of the Christ Child, whose birth the millennium celebrations purport to commemorate.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Greeting Cards
Object type
Print
TitleChristmas and New Year card (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour photo lithograph printed on card
Card
Ink
Colour Photo Lithograph
Brief description
Corporate Christmas and Millennium card for Branson Coates; London, 1999
Physical description
Computer-generated montage showing the interior of the Millennium Dome with crowds, and the Baby Jesus superimposed on the giant figures of the Body Zone
Dimensions
  • Folded height: 10.7cm
  • Open height: 21.2cm
  • Width: 21cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • wishing you a merry christmas / and a wild new millennium (inside; printing)
  • Michael! / Nigel (inside; hand written in ink)
  • find us at our new address: branson coates, 1 honduras street, london EC1Y 0TH, voice +44(0)20 7336 1400, fax +44(0)20 7336 1401, e-mail info@bransoncoates.com, web www.com (inside, bottom edge; printing)
Credit line
Given by Michael Snodin
Production
Attribution note: corporate greeting
Subjects depicted
Millennium Dome
Jesus
Millenium
Place depicted
Greenwich
Summary
The greetings card can be an effective medium for publicity and corporate identity. This example, a millennium and Christmas greeting for Branson Coates, designers of the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, South East London, wittily juxtaposes a scene inside the dome with a conventional representation of the Christ Child, whose birth the millennium celebrations purport to commemorate.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.49-2000

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Record createdMarch 28, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O34446/christmas-and-new-year-card-print-branson-coates/
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