Description

Vintage USDA Report Silkscreen Poster: US Peanut Industry (1982)

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 medium-format screen print features the original 1982 USDA cover, rendered in white ink and printed by hand on Kraft Speckletone 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.

• 14″ x 18″
• White silkscreen ink
• Printed on heavyweight acid-free French Paper Co. Kraft Speckletone (100% recycled and produced using hydropower)
• Designed and hand-pulled in New York City
• Signed and numbered
• Very limited edition run of 10