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Poster, The Invisible City
This is a Poster. It is dated 1972 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.
Chermayeff’s famous poster uses a system of found typography to represent an international conference of designers.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Leaving on a Jetplane to Aspen.
It is credited Gift of Chermayeff and Geismar Associates.
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Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Travel in Comfort By Imperial Airways
- offset lithograph on paper mounted on board.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-101
- Poster, American Airlines Over the World
- offset lithograph on paper, lined.
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- 1963-39-134
![An offset lithograph on paper poster encouraging travel to Europe with American Airlines. A stylised eagle dominates the poster, composed of two flat geometric triangular planes with circular edges for their top right corners, one pale blue forms the wings, the other navy forms the body, with five small alternating white and blue stars diagonally along the eagle's back and three pale blue dashes suggesting feathers at the top of the eagle's head. The eagle is shown in profile facing right and has a navy beak protruding to the right, and an eye formed from a pale blue semi-circlular eyelid and a white semi-circular eye. The outline of a right facing arrow is drawn in white from the bottom edge of the wing onto the eagle's body, and a pulsing white line can be found on the bird's body under the stars. Capitalised text in red and white printed on a right facing diagonal from the top left corner says [AMERICAN AIRLINES], followed by blue, capitalised italicised text underneath the bird which says [TO / EUROPE]. The American Airlines logo is superimposed on a blue stripe at the bottom center, formed from two red capital letter As with the white outline of a bird of prey between them with its wings stretched upwards, surrounded by five small white stars. The poster is signed in white and blue ink [E. McKnight Kauffer] in the lower left, in the corner of the eagle's tail and along its bottom edge.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/65119_0389eb3402775124_n.jpg "Poster, American Airlines to Europe, 1948")
- Poster, American Airlines to Europe, 1948
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-138
Its dimensions are
91.6 × 61.1 cm (36 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in white ink, vertically, lower right of design: Ivan Chermayeff
It is inscribed
Printed in white ink, lower right: Copyright © 1972 IDCA, International Design Conference in Aspen, The Invisible City. Champion Paper Javelin Coated Offset/80 lb.
Cite this object as
Poster, The Invisible City; USA; offset lithograph on white wove paper; 91.6 × 61.1 cm (36 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.); Gift of Chermayeff and Geismar Associates; 1981-29-59
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Ephemeral Images: Recent American Posters.
