Poster, Connection

This is a Poster. It was made for (as the client) Herman Miller Furniture Company. It is dated ca. 1964–80 and we acquired it in 1981. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

89 × 58.5 cm (35 1/16 × 23 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower left: 26/100 John Massey

It is inscribed

Printed in black, vertically, upper left: , but there are worse things in life / than missing connections. For instance, / not having any connections to miss--- / being unconnected or disconnected, cut / off, alienated, out of touch. Making / connections is the basis of poetry, in- / vention, crime detection and air travel. / It is no accident that the Boy Scout knot; in white, vertically, within black square at upper left: from / Notes on Connection / by Ralph Caplan. / Herman Miller / Zeeland, Michigan; in black, horizontally, upper center: Herman Miller, a highly connective company; in black, lower left: herman miller produces office / and health care systems, furniture, / service and information

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