Poster, Distinction

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: 43/100 John Massey

It is inscribed

Printed in black, vertically, upper left: that frustrated him. He had somehow never / before noticed that the achievement of dis- / tinction was largely a matter of knowing / when to make distinctions. And how. / Suddenly he saw how much depended on / the ability to distinguish between al- / ternatives, to choose one option rather / than another until you reached a point where / Herman Miller: the distinction we have comes from the distinctions we make; in white, vertically, within black box at center left: from / Notes on Distinction / by Ralph Caplan. / Herman Miller / Zeeland, Michigan; in black, lower right: herman miller produces office / and health care systems, furniture, / service and information

Cite this object as