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Design Category
Promotional design and advertising, 1998
Design firm
Pentagram Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) Communication Graphics: 20
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Now that most Broadway advertising attempts to duplicate the bold, noisy look of the Public Theater graphics, typography in Pentagram’s posters for the Public has grown quieter, to stand out in the din. Shakespeare’s play “Pericles” features pirates, potions, shipwrecks, narrow escapes, and miraculous resurrections.