Description

Vintage EPA Report Silkscreen Poster: The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States, 1989

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 art.

This screen print features the original 1989 EPA report cover, rendered in custom climate-change-blue ink and printed by hand on parchtone archival cover 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.

• 12.5″ x 16″
• Climate-change-blue silkscreen ink
• Printed on heavyweight acid-free French Paper Co. Parchtone (produced using hydropower)
• Designed and hand-pulled in New York City
• Signed and numbered
• Limited edition run of 30