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Soroban (Japanese Abacus) (Japan)

Soroban (Japanese Abacus) (Japan)
wood, bamboo.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, 1989.0515.01.
14.2012.65

A vertical poster predominately filled with a grid of alternating shades of gray filled squares. Most of the vertical lines of the grid are broken from the uniform structure into loose ribbons of rows of the squares. Only a small portion of the mustard yellow background is detectable at the top border. The background help to indicate that the ribbons seem to be peeling out the prison of grayscale grid cells, which transforms a few into a rainbow of color-filled squares: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and white. . They seem to sliding downwards and sideways as if they are escaping the two-dimensional plane. The arabesque bends and curls of the ribbons create organic shapes that are filled black, which highlight the arabesque sense of movement and three-dimensionality. Scattered in the center of some of the squares, notably ones non-gray, are a form of black type face numbers, mathematical symbols, and a couple of grammar colons. In the bottom right-hand corner, inside four varying color-filled squares, read 'olivetti' in lower-case, sans-serif thick black text. On the left-hand corner, slightly above 'olivetti' and 2 lines of 8 color-filled squares, reads 'Divisumma' in italicized, black, sans-serif font.

Poster, Divisumma
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.

Adding Machine (USA)

Adding Machine (USA)
bakelite (tm), metal, wood.
Gift of Barbara and Max Pine.
1993-133-36

This object was made by Victor Adding Machine Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.