Object Details
- Designer
- Seymour Chwast, American, b. 1931
- Client
- Herman Miller Furniture Company, Zeeland, Michigan, USA
- Art Director
- Stephen Frykholm, American, b. 1942
- Author
- Ralph Caplan, American, b. 1925
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. On yellow ground, a city street scene with views of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers (one of which is under construction) illustrated in comic style. Figures populate the windows of buildings and the sidewalk of the street, where there are a variety of local vendors and shops. A city bus, taxi, and two additional cars drive on the street near the bottom of the composition. Written text throughout contained within speech bubbles, comments on ways in which the life depicted in the poster is improving. Title rendered in cloud letters formed by an airplane at upper left. Design bordered in white, with a thick white rectangle at bottom with black printed text.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Various Donors
- 1976
- Accession Number
- 1981-29-420
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 89.4 × 57.5 cm (35 3/16 × 22 5/8 in.)
- made in
- 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_1981-29-420
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4522b1833-cc9c-4392-8124-e011a6b74d0f
