Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 30 objects tagged commercial poster.

Poster, Tokyo Communication Arts, 1991
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, Iceman, 1978
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-203

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster featuring a color photograph of young male athletes standing, walking, and two are on the ground, in a torrent of rain. Lower right, in black: NIKE [with swoosh].

Poster (USA), ca. 1978
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-416

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Portrait photograph of the Nike Pro Club group of basketball players all wearing black robes and white Nike sneakers, some holding basketballs. Above, in black: THE SUPREME COURT. Lower right, in white: NIKE [swoosh].

Poster, The Supreme Court, 1977–79
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-77

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, Goin' Home, for Nike, 1975–81
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-204

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On a black ground, in a horizontal row across the center: an abstracted eye with brown iris and orange eyebrow, a vertically-oriented yellow jacket bee with pink, circular antenae and green wings, and a horizontally striped blue, serif letter "M".

Poster, Eye Bee M (IBM), 1981
offset lithograph.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-20

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster shows a gradient blue background flanked on one side by a yellow triangle with a line of small red spheres and green cylinder at edge, on the right a teal column with a base and abstracted capital; at the top textured black and teal area; on the blue background are a series of dotted ‘O’s overlapping in blue, green, red, and yellow. Below, dark blue margin with words in block letters: olivetti peripherals; in dotted lines ‘O’s appear at bottom right and left.

Poster, Olivetti Peripherals, 1984
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Nancy Skolos.
1996-90-22

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster featuring an Olivetti typewriter flying through the air along with winged colorful spheres, all above a portion of the moon.

Poster, Olivetti, 1976
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Milton Glaser.
1979-42-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

In a yellow tiled shower stall with green molding and beige flooring, a large red and black Q leans as though on its kickstand. Below, on floor, in black: olivetti; above, in black: QUADERNO. Hovering above is the gray vintage computer; in white: Olivetti / QUADERNO.

Poster, Olivetti Quaderno, 1993
offset lithograph on heavy white paper.
Gift of Milton Glaser.
1997-28-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, "The Birth of the Blues" for Levi Strauss, ca. 1975–80
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-253

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Horizontal poster; reminiscent of a dollar bill. All in black ink on white ground. Allover text, including: FOR OVER 125 YEARS / OUR CELEBRATED AND ORIGINAL XX BLUE DENIM OVERALLS / HAVE BEEN BEFORE THE PUBLIC. This is a pair of Levi’s / THEY ARE / THE ORIGINAL BLUE JEANS / made in the United States and enjoy a national reputation. Only selected materials have been used in their manufacture. / EVERY PAIR SATISFACTION GUARANTEED…

Poster, "This is a pair of Levi's" for Levi Strauss, 1977
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-278

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, If the shoe fits, run it. / Fartleks1, 1978
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-94

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Abstract and angular black butterfly with red, yellow, green, and purple shapes inside. Above, text in black ink: HANAE MORI.

Poster, Hanae Mori, 1978
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Ikko Tanaka.
1993-55-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster divided into three registers: blue at top, white at center and black and orange at bottom. At right, a black and white photograph of a woman (Anita Ekberg), represented full length, wearing shorts and a top streches her arm across the blue section of the poster at top. She is balanced on her toes, with her knees bent and carrys a large ball behind her. At lower left the title is repeated three times, printed in white on a black square: addo-x / addo-x / addo-x; in white on orange rectangle: tops in precision engineered adding machines and calculators. The Ben-Day dots of the graphic process are prominently visible on the figure.

Poster, addo-x, 1958
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1994-109-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

An Adler typewriter with typed piece of paper. Across the top: Adler. Lower right, in black ink: Adlerwerke vorm / Heinrich Kleyer AG / Zimmerftr.92/93.

Poster, Adler Typewriter, 1909–10
lithograph on paper.
Gift of the Eric Kellenberger Collection, Switzerland and museum purchase....
2005-12-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Multicolored poster advertising the Divisumma adding machine by Olivetti. Design consists of stylized printing ribbons in shades of grey interspersed with checkerboard squares of vivid colors. Small black numbers and symbols appear randomly on several of the gray squares and more consistently on the colored ones. Printed in black, on top of multi-colored squares, lower left: olivetti; on top of multi-colored squares, lower right: Divisumma.

Poster, Divisumma, 1953
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of James A. Lapides and from General....
2009-1-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

White poster with black border. In center, silhouette of a lightbulb in black. Edges of lightbulb have aura in concentric layers of purple, blue, green and yellow. At bottom, on black border in white, Japanese text.

Poster, Yamagiwa International Competition for Lighting Fixtures Exhibition,...
photo-offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-20-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a black ground, with colored gradation, a fly composed of circles and Levi's buttons.

Poster, Levi's 501, The Button Fly, 2010
offset lithograph with rainbow foil stamping on coated wove paper.
Gift of Stefan Sagmeister.
2011-34-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster depicts an oculus of digital blocks of color, growing more concentrated as the blocks get smaller and closer to the center. Above: el atomo para la paz; below: GENERAL DYNAMICS; center right: solar dynamics.

Poster, El atomo para la paz (Atoms for Peace), 1956
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
2013-42-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Advertisement design for a drug company. On yellow ground, three silhouettes of bowl and branch of spoon (image cut off by edge of sheet): black (on left of sheet) and red (above white on right side of sheet). Name of medicine imprinted on black and red spoons; photo image of smiling young girl in braids on white spoon. Imprinted diagonally, left half of sheet, in red: We suggest that your prescriptions for; in white: Eskay's Pentaplex/in red: specify at least 2 teaspoonfuls 3 times daily./in white: supplied in 12 fl. oz. bottles; right half of sheet, in black: Eskay's; in white: Pentaplex/in black: makes B Complex therapy/palatable.

Print, Eskay's Pentaplex, 1945–55
offset lithograph on coated white paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-65

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, Signs That Say Safe Driving..., ca. 1966
offset lithograph on white paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-9

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster depicts several overlapping circles in black, brown, and gray; and a plane flying through them. Above, text in Russian; center: astrodynamics; lower margin: GENERAL DYNAMICS.

Poster, Atoms for Peace, General Dynamics, 1955
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
2013-42-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On a ground of gray graph paper, above there is an imaginary blue sky with floating transparent triangles; placed across poster is a white ruler above which is a white sphere bordered partially by a red line made by a compass. Below, in red: graphic / in blue: DESIGN.

Poster, Champion International Corp., Industrial Design, 1980–85
offset lithograph on paper.
1985-106-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster advertisement for Levi's jeans. Recreation of jeans from its deconstructed thread.

Poster, Levi's, The Strongest Thread, 2009
offset lithograph on coated wove paper.
Gift of Stefan Sagmeister.
2011-34-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

At center left, a large upright tan-colored hand with a tire floating over its palm, with a streetlight behind on a black and white post. Text in black: STOP ON / INDIA / NONSKID / TYRES / AND [vertically] / FEEL THE DIFFERENCE.

Poster, Stop on India Nonskid Tyres and Feel the Difference, 1935
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-79

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Advertisement for Stetson Hats, likely produced to encouage discretion during wartime tensions. At center, a Stetson hat positioned on the Sphinx of Egypt's head, facing half-right against a starry sky. Text in yellow, above: Loose Talk Can Cost Lives!; in light blue, below: Keep it under your / STETSON.

Print, Loose Talk Can Cost Lives, ca. 1943
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-727

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, IBM / Suggest!, 1978
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-440

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster depicts a black outlined and silhouetted world map on a red ground; one yellow horizontal and white vertical line cross the globe; silhouette of an airplane at each end. Below, image of the full moon. Lower margin: GENERAL DYNAMICS.

Poster, Atome im Dienste des Friedens, General Dynamics, 1955
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
2013-42-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Abstract design of head of Japanese woman.

Poster, Nihon Buyo, 1981
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Ikko Tanaka.
1993-55-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster for the miniwatt Philips Radio. Blue and yellow background. In the foreground, an image of a Philips Miniwatt Type E444 diode-tetrode radio value lamp, in shades or grey and brown. "MiNiWATT" is printed in red, while "PHILIPS RADIO" is rendered in solid black letters, outlined in white.

Poster, Miniwatt/ Philips Radio, 1931
lithograph on paper.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-23

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.