AIDS: How Big Does It Have to Get Before You Take Notice?
Poster
1986 (issued)
1986 (issued)
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This poster was issued as part of a British Government campaign to raise AIDS/HIV awareness. Although largely typographic, it suggests a tombstone carved with an ominous warning. Such morbid imagery was widely condemned, for many individuals felt that the Government was covertly attacking civil liberties when it should have been offering clear advice.
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| Title | AIDS: How Big Does It Have to Get Before You Take Notice? (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | 'AIDS: How Big Does It Have to Get Before You Take Notice?'. Colour offset lithograph poster. Designed by Malcolm Gaskin and David O'Connor-Thompson. Prepared and issued by the Department of Health and Social Security as part of a campaign to stop the spread of AIDS. Great Britain, 1986. |
| Physical description | 'Aids. How Big Does It Have To Get Before You Take Notice?' Colour offset lithograph poster. Part of a government campaign to stop the spread of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by the Central Office of Information |
| Production | Reason For Production: Commission |
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| Summary | This poster was issued as part of a British Government campaign to raise AIDS/HIV awareness. Although largely typographic, it suggests a tombstone carved with an ominous warning. Such morbid imagery was widely condemned, for many individuals felt that the Government was covertly attacking civil liberties when it should have been offering clear advice. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1 |
| Other number | 15/A10 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.177-1987 |
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| Record created | July 27, 2000 |
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