Description
Vintage USDA Report Silkscreen Poster: Turning Great Plains Crop Residues and Other Products into Energy
From the Department of Information’s ongoing series of vintage government report cover posters. Adapted from a real 1980s EPA report cover (this reprint is not affiliated with the U.S. government).
A peak example of late-modernist bureaucratic design—strict grids, Helvetica, and the lingering influence of 1960s Swiss/International Typographic Style—this cover transforms federal bureaucracy into geometric art.
This medium-format screen print features the original 1984 USDA cover, rendered in custom great-plains-green ink and printed on French Paper Co. Maduro Beach Speckletone archival stock. Each print is signed, numbered, and pulled in NYC.
Using publicly available high-res archival scans, every imperfection—noise, glitches, and stray artifacts—is embraced and celebrated.
A bit messy, bit experimental. Each print is unique.
- 14″ x 18″
- Hand-mixed great-plains-green silkscreen ink
- Printed on heavyweight acid-free French Paper Co. Maduro Beach Speckletone (recycled and produced using hydropower)
- Designed and hand-pulled in New York City
- Signed and numbered
- Limited edition run of 10
