Back to Blog
Tweet archive6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() When Bloom mentioned this to Lam, Lam approached Maggie Lee, the department’s archivist, who had it in a cabinet of flat files. He’d never got the original back, and he occasionally wondered about it. Just one piece, sure, but it’s everywhere. “I thought, This is a really large one-man show. “And then suddenly there it was, on every street corner and lamppost in town,” Meyerowitz said the other day. It had taken him an hour and a half and earned him eleven hundred dollars. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” They presented the categories-plastic, metal, glass, foil-above the image that Meyerowitz had delivered: a lidded metal garbage can, cinched at the waist with a tailor’s tape measure. The signs and posters read “Help Reduce New York’s Waste. The city was asking its residents to sort their trash-voluntarily, to start, so the practice would take some persuading. It needed a logo for its new recycling campaign. In 1986, at a time when he was busy producing illustrations for magazines, movies, and ad campaigns, he got a call from an art director at Ogilvy & Mather Direct, which had the Sanitation Department as a client. ![]() “My dad made an art work for the Department of Sanitation!” Bloom said.īloom’s father is Rick Meyerowitz, the illustrator and humorist, the creator of the poster art for “Animal House” and more than a hundred features for National Lampoon. Last year, Molly Bloom, a freelance editor, moved into a new apartment, in Flatbush, and quickly befriended a neighbor named Lilly Lam, who mentioned that she designed signs for the Department of Sanitation. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |