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Design Category
Illustration, 1996
Design firm
Spur (Baltimore, Maryland)
Collection
(1997) Communication Graphics: 18
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This cool little guy made out of plumbing parts has been sitting in a hardware store window for fifty years. Both the sculpture and the event it is announcing are assemblages, and as a photographed subject he’s an unexpected surprise on a poster for illustrators.
Since you can still make fun of male anatomy in a mixed audience, the nudity factor ties into the “x” in “X-hibition,” as well as making a double entendre of the word “club.”