“Cover Your Head: Wear A Condom!”
$150.00
A safe-sex poster originally designed for ACTUP!NY in 1992. It was rejected.
COLLECTIONS
• Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Los Angeles
• Denver Art Museum, AIGA Design Archives
• Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Letterform Archive, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
EXHIBITIONS
• “CCA@100: Innovation by Design” (2007)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• “BlackDogma: Selections from the Work of Mark Fox in the Permanent Collection of Architecture + Design” (1999)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• “24 Reasons to Leave L.A.: Propaganda by Mark Fox” (1998)
Doyle/Logan Gallery, Los Angeles
• “WiseGeist Too: Image and Text” (1994)
Doyle/Logan Gallery, Los Angeles
• “Maximum Message/Minimum Means” (1994)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York
• “Communication Graphics 14” (1993)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York
• “WiseGeist: The Art of Gary Baseman, Greg Clarke & Mark Fox” (1992)
Doyle/Logan Gallery, Los Angeles
• “The One-Color/Two-Color Show II” (1992)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York
PUBLICATIONS
• “Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest” by Silas Munro and Stephen Coles, published by Letterform Archive (2022)
• “Contemporary Western-American Counterculture” by Denise Urell, published in Affiche, No. 6, The Netherlands (6.93)
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EDITION: 70 signed and numbered
DIMENSIONS: 26 x 31 inches
MEDIA: Screen printed in black and yellow Nazdar 5500 flat poster inks on archival rag. The printer’s chop mark is in the lower right corner.
PRINTING: Jeff Wasserman at Wasserman Silk Screen Co. / Santa Monica
DESIGN: © 1992 Mark Fox, BlackDog / SF