Design for Avant Garde Typeface: Upper Case A to P
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Object Details
- Designer
- Thomas Carnase, American, b. 1939
- Firm
- Lubalin, Smith, Carnase, American, 1969 - 1975
- Creator
- Herb Lubalin, American, 1918–1981
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black upper case letters for the Avant Garde typeface, arranged in three horizontal rows. Includes variations of principal letters.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tom Carnase
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 1996-40-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, graphite on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 18.7 x 39.1 cm (7 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
- made in
- New York, NY, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1996-40-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq40bfaf328-f3dd-4bad-a2bb-ac5496e9d7c5
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