Object Details
Designer
Paul Rand, American, 1914–1996
Client
Yale University School of Art
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Black and white poster resembling a Snellen eye examination letter chart, with letters and images largest at top and decreasing in size below. Upper left quadrant a black, bolded Y and to its right a black and white photograph of a bull dog, Yale's mascot. For six lines underneath this, alternating black Y's in different directions including upside down, lying left, lying right, and right side up and bull dog photographs decreasing in size and increasing in number.
Credit Line
Gift of Marion S. Rand
Date
1988
Accession Number
2002-11-4
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright Notice
© Marion S. Rand
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Offset lithograph on white paper
Dimensions
43.8 x 22.2 cm (17 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. )
made in
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_2002-11-4