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Design Category
Promotional design and advertising, 1998
Design firm
Pentagram (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) Communication Graphics: 20
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“The American Dream” is Edward Albee’s absurdist farce set in a dysfunctional upper-class family. The play’s themes of consumption and ambition inspire its poster, which impales the United States on the tines of an elegant fork. Typography was hand-lettered by the designer.