Into Battle with…
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AJ Barratt: “I remember going into the NME offices one day and I saw this poster on their wall, and someone had added a third line to the bottom of it. ‘Noise Is Golden, Silence is a Dead Giveaway… and Bullshit stinks’, that’s what it was! (Laughs) That’s what somebody had written.”
‘Into Battle’ promo poster from the archive of AJ Barratt, digitally restored by artofztt.com. Also included is the original photo for this design, scanned from the negative. The quote above is from a forthcoming interview with AJ which contains more exclusive images from his collection.
artist: Art Of Noise title: Into Battle With Art Of Noise format: A2 promo poster design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt cat. no: ZTIS100 date: 09/83 art of notes: The red crosses are identical to the ones on the ‘You Can’t Suck The Same Piece of Sugar…’ poster and continue the trend for ephemeral symbols hovering in the top right corner.
Posted on Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 at 9:52 pm under Art, Design, Poster / flyer. You can follow these comments using the RSS feed. You can trackback from your own site or leave a comment below..
Here’s hoping your work leads to some reprints. I’d kill for that A0 size. It makes the fourteen-year old inside me tingle.
Comment by Eric K on March 5, 2013 at 8:29 pm