The cultural language of food labels
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Dr Alison Barnes is a senior lecturer in  Visual Communication at the University of Western Sydney and a scholar in residence at the Powerhouse Museum. As part of her residency she is exploring what the food labels of firm W C Douglass tell us about the history of food production and graphic design.
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