Poster, Sandjam, Pickle Farm Beach, Sand Castle Competition, Des Moines, IA

John H. Sayles

1989

silkscreen on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A poster advertises the Sandjam Sand Castle Competition with a stylized, muscular figure in the center. Text details the event date, location, and sponsors. A poster advertises the Sandjam Sand Castle Competition with a stylized, muscular figure in the center. Text details the event date, location, and sponsors. Poster depicting a silhouette of a male figure on a tan background with light photomontage of skyscrapers. The figure is colored in iridescent blue-green; he flexes his muscles in a common pose, against an orange and red starburst with emitting black wavy lines. Figure stands on an inverted triangle in black and red; below, text in brown, outlined in black: SANDJAM, sandwiched between one orange and one turquoise wavy horizontal line.