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Poster, Sources and Resources of 20th Century Design, The International Design Conference in Aspen
This is a Poster. It was designed by Paul Rand. It is dated 1966 and we acquired it in 1981. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Paul Rand was a leading modernist graphic designer throughout the second half of the twentieth century, most renown for his corporate trademarks, including those for IBM, Westinghouse, UPS, and ABC. Rand is credited for bringing the avant-garde art movements of early twentieth-century European modernism to American commercial work and helping to elevate the graphic design profession to greater respect and prominence in both corporate and everyday life. In this poster for the Aspen International Design Conference, an annual conference begun in 1949 that brings together industry leaders, Rand uses his typical blend of eye-catching clarity, simplicity, and a touch of whimsy. He liked to include visual cues in his work, like this poster’s egg, which reflects the 1966 conference theme, “Sources and Resources of 20th Century Design.” The egg is both a source of life and a resource for life-sustaining nutrients, surviving amid the uneven painterly spots—perhaps a reference to a spotted bird’s egg, to the chaos of emerging postmodern design that Rand opposed, or more simply to the playfulness of design.
It is credited Gift of Various Donors.
- Poster, The Prepared Professional
- screenprint on paper.
- Gift of Marion S. Rand.
- 2002-11-11
- Poster, Sein oder Nichtsein (To Be or Not to Be)
- offset lithograph on wove paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2010-21-78
- Poster, Our Allies Need Eggs; Your Farm Can Help
- lithograph.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.45
Its dimensions are
61 × 77.3 cm (24 × 30 7/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in black, lower right: Paul Rand; Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right corner: Paul Rand
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right corner: 243-80-731
Cite this object as
Poster, Sources and Resources of 20th Century Design, The International Design Conference in Aspen; Designed by Paul Rand (American, 1914–1996); USA; offset lithograph on white wove paper; 61 × 77.3 cm (24 × 30 7/16 in.); Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-227
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Rebeca Méndez Selects and Ephemeral Images: Recent American Posters.
