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No man is an island entire of itself

Poster
1985 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers)
CTD Printers Ltd. (printers)
Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers)
Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin
London (designed)

'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main' John Donne. Colour offset lithograph poster with a design showing a green rectangle with a blue border, with the text lettered in black in the top-left corner.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleNo man is an island entire of itself
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'No man is an island entire of itself'. Colour offset lithograph poster quoting Albert Camus, showing a green rectangle with a blue border, the text lettered in the top-left corner. Designed by Alan Fletcher of Pentagram Design Ltd., Great Britiain, 1985.
Physical description
'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main' John Donne. Colour offset lithograph poster with a design showing a green rectangle with a blue border, with the text lettered in black in the top-left corner.
Dimensions
  • Height: 80cm
  • Width: 59.5cm
Measurements taken from: 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
Object history
This poster is one of a series of ten commissioned for the I.B.M. social programme ‘Charitable Contribution Campaign’.
Subject depicted
Quotations
Associated objects
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
30/D6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1361-1986

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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