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Design Category
Promotional design and advertising, 1996
Design firm
plus design inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
Collection
(1997) The Greening of Design

Description

Recycling and process are emphasized in this poster announcing Alcan’s 1992 lecture series. The front provides lecture information while the back lists fragments of facts about recycling. Printed on corrugated cardboard, with typography generated by stencils and an antique typewriter, the materials and techniques allude to recycling and process in architecture. The tag, recyled from the 1990 poster press sheets, is imprinted with a single recycling fact from the fragmented listing on the poster’s back.

Credits
Creative director/art director: Anita Meyer
Designers: Nicole Juen, Anita Meyer, Matthew Monk
Typefaces: Antique Typewriter, Stencils
Printers: Alpha Press, Arabesque Studio Ltd.
Fabricator: Daniels Printing Company
Materials: Cardboard, Recycled Alcan Posters, Aluminium
Client: Alcan Aluminium Ltd.