Poster, Symbol Signs

This is a Poster. It was designed by Cook & Shanosky Associates, Inc. and made for (as the client) U.S. Department of Transportation. It is dated 1974 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Ken Friedman. It is credited Gift of Ken Friedman.

Its dimensions are

75.9 x 54.8 cm (29 7/8 x 21 9/16 in. )

It is inscribed

Printed in black down left side: Public Services: / telephone / mail / currency exchange / first aid / lost and found; Baggage / lockers / elevator / toilets, men / toilets, women / toilets /; Information / Hotel information / Taxi / Bus / Ground Transportation / Rail Transportation / Air Transportation / Heliport / Water Transportation; Concessions: Car Rental / Restaurant / Coffee Shop / Bar / Shops; PRocessing Activities: Ticket purchase / Baggage Check-in / Baggage Check / Customs / Immigration; Regulations: No Smoking / Smoking / No Parking / Parking / No Entry Printed upper center below the word Symbol: The American Institute of Graphic Arts / under a contract with the United States Department of Transportaion, / Office of Facilitation, has created 34 passenger and pedestrian / oriented symbols for use in air ports, rail terminals / and other travel facilities Printed upper right below the word Signs: AIGA Committee on Signs and Symbols / Thomas H. Geismar, Chairman / Seymour Chwast / Rudolph de Harak / Lohn Lees / Massimo Vignelli / Graphic Design of all symbols / Cook and Shanosky Associates Inc. / Guidlines for use of the symbols: / Page, Arbitrio and Resen, Ltd. / Project coordination: Don and Karen Moyer Printed across lower edge of sheet at center: Printed Courtesy of Champion International Corporation on Champion Papers, Wedgwood Dull Text/100lb.

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