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On a white ground, overlapping transparent colorful letters: Knoll. Upper section in black ink, text: Knoll Internation.

Poster, Knoll International, 1967
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Lella and Massimo Vignelli.
2009-42-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Poster for a 1966 concert featuring Jefferson Airplane, Muddy Waters, Butterfield Blues Band, 9/23-10/2, at Fillmore & Winterland, organized by infamous rock impressario, Bill Graham. A dancing nude woman is underneath with words "The Sound" outlined in purple. The poster relates more directly to Graham, who is credited with coining the phrase, "The San Francisco Sound," which immediately became known as "The Sound." The vibrant colors take precedent over the content of the lettering and background.

Poster, The Sound, 1966
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
1979-34-27

This object was made by Bill Graham.
This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster advertising IAUS exhibition and lecture tour, March 24 to May 19, 1980. Text and images integrated throughout, divided by heavy horizontal black bands. Across the top in red text: A NEW WAVE OF AUSTRIAN ARCHITECTURE. Information on events, participating institutions, exhibiting architects, and program sponsor, distributed throughout. Center, a band containing to architectural renderings (at left) and two photographs of buildings (at right). A photograph of a large red bowler hat resting on wooden slats (?) occupies lower half of design. Verso: IAUS address; postage.

Poster, A New Wave of Austrian Architecture, 1980
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Massimo Vignelli.
1991-69-83

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Red and black interlocking figures create an all over pattern. Distinct figures include two that are upside down are lower left and right on eith side of "83". Enclosed by a red border.

Poster, Keith Haring at Fun Gallery, 1983
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Ken Friedman.
1997-19-260

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

On tan ground, imprinted in green, in a stencilled typeface (echoing stencils found on bales of tobacco), across upper edge: EL PRODUCTO / cigars. Lower right quadrant, imprinted in brown: for Dad... / with love / and kisses; three images of lips in red; at center left an image of a man in the form of a brown cigar, wearing yellow and red brimmed hat and holding a cigar in one hand and a cane in the other. A product label, in white, red and yellow, is wrapped around the upper part of the cigar.

Poster, For Dad... with Love and Kisses, 1953–57
offset lithograph on thin cream paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Print of Kurdish peasants with quote For Anti-WW3 Internationalist Art; a response to Iraqi persecution of the Kurds

Poster, Kurdestan..., 1980
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-110

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Photograph of Ronald Reagan with UPC code.

Poster, Buyer Beware, ca. 1980
screenprint on off-white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Recto contains map displaying icon system, subdivided into three categories: sustainable living, nature, culture & society. These are further subdivided into four categories each. Text in English. Verso is titled "Green Map ® Icons / Version 3".

Poster, Green Map ® Icons Version 3, after 2008
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Wendy Brawer, Green Map System.
2011-46-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Print of eagle with claws gripping map of Grenada; "No!" emblazoned across eagle.

Poster, U.S. Out of Grenada, 1983
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-31

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Description: Repeated print of hand with nightstick and croissant; wallpaper poster for the "Living-Room Wall" Condition: Small tear on UL corner

Poster, Wallpaper Poster, ca. 1980
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-38

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Description: Image of George Bush with "hmmm..." across face

Poster, hmmm...Bush/Quayle '92, 1992
lithograph on white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-46

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Black and white photo of man in cap and ragged jacket using radial arm saw. Background composed of blue section and red and white striped section with blue ovoid shape. Text in white ink, upper center: RURAL INDUSTRIES.

Poster, Rural Industries, 1941
screenprint on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post and from Friends of....
1995-106-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Arm holding a trowel raised from behind a brick wall to group of Klan members, with city skyline and Golden Gate Bridge in background Ad for demonstration in San Francisco; for John Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Poster, Build a Wall of Resistance, 1984
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-32

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Predominantly black poster with text: "Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Tadanori Yokoo 22 2 tm 14 4 1974" across top. Central, red, blue, green geometric shapes above a green triangle enclosing red and blue hands. Photograph of the artist on lower left-hand side, and yellow representation of diety Jibbo Kannon.

Poster, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Tadanori Yokoo. 22/2/t/m 14/4 1974, 1974
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-12-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Lithograph poster for 1968 concert in San Francisco, featuring Canned Heat, Gordon Lightfoot, and Cold Blood. Border of swirling, interconnected figures, faces, breasts and curlicues in pink, yellow, purple, red, black. Text seems to grow out of an orange-and pink urn at the bottom of the page in a mushroom-like form.

Central block of text in stylized, distorted letters:
Canned Heat
Gordon Lightfoot
Cold Blood
Fillmore
West

Surrounding "Fillmore West" appears to be a background growing out of the border chaos, but is actually stylized green text on yellow:

Thurs Fri Sat. Oct 3 4 5 (lower left)
Lights by Holy See (lower right)

Black banner along top edge with red text: Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco; block of text along bottom edge with ticket locations.

Poster, Canned Heat, 1968
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
1979-34-5

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

Poster, Enlist in the Navy

Poster, Enlist in the Navy
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1980-32-1172

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

On black background, five scenes of a pair of feet in ballet points. Each pair is in one of the five basic positions of ballet. Separating each of these pairs of feet is a single work in text which reads: NEW/ YORK/ CITY/ BALLET.

Poster, New York City Ballet, 1974–75
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1980-32-976

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

Imprinted in white ink, upper left: Thomas Edison; center right: Genius enlightening the world; lower left: Commemorating Thomas Edison's/invention of the first practical / incandescent lamp-1879./Edison National Historic Site/ West Orange, New Jersey./National Park Service/ U.S. Department of the Interior.

Poster, Thomas Edison
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Tom Geismar.
1991-69-95

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

Stenciled letters and women's figures (one of them is pregnant) in red and black For WHAM (Women's Health Action and Mobilization), New York. Stenciled text in red and black: OUR/ BODIES/ OUR/ CHOICE

Poster, Our Bodies Our Choice, 1990
spray paint (krylon) on heavy white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-105

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

Angry group hurling rocks at soldiers and tank emblazoned with U.S. flag and "Pinochet" Poster to commemorate the nineteenth anniversary of the military coup in Chile. Text in black ink at top: Sept. 11, 1973 - Sept 11, 1983. Text in red ink: DOWN/WITH THE/CHILEAN/DICTATORSHIP!/SUPPORT THE POPULAR/RESISTANCE!

Poster, Down With The Chilean Dictatorship!, 1983
lithograph on yellow paper (possibly screenprint?).
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-30

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

Red photographs of Reagan, Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy; ad for film/lecture series at Collective for Living Cinema

Poster, RED PERIL: The Return of the Anti-Commies, 1982
lithograph on white paper.
Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
1993-53-71

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster printed in black with [printed] hand-lettered text and images throughout. Recto: Scattered over sheet, words and phrases as irregular forms and shapes (Fella terms them "bejabers", "quasi-stellar object"). Verso: Across entire sheet, pattern of scribbled lines punctuated at regular intervals with circular disks filled with curlicues and calligraphic embellishments.

Poster, Holiday Greetings, 1992
offset lithograph on gray paper.
Gift of Edward Fella.
1995-42-65

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

On black ground, the word DESIGN written vertically at center in varied letters and colors. At lower right, in white, surrounded by diagonal white lines: TALK

Poster, Design Talk, 1995
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1995-52-2

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

Poster advertising "Give Peace a Dance" 24-hour dance marathon at the Seattle Center House. Bottom quarter of poster contains title and venue details. "GIVE" and "A" printed in black, "PEACE" in green, "DANCE" in red. Four footprints printed in black (dance steps) with peace signs on the soles of the shoes are numbered, clockwise from top, (4), (3), (1), and (2). Footprint (4) has a green dotted line running from its heel to the ball of the foot on footprint (3), and a green dotted line running past the heel of footprint (3). Footprint (2) has a green dotted line intersecting its heel, crossing an arcing red dotted line that intersects with the ball of the foot on footprint (1), extending off the page.

Poster, Give Peace a Dance
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-81-a

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Poster, International Design Center Nagoya: Sato, ca. 1996
offset lithograph on off-white paper.
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1996-129-3

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

Poster depicts a piece of paper in an accordion shape with text written in black and red. Upper center: A / TRAVELING / FELLOWSHIP IN / ARCHITECTURE; 19 / LYCEUM / 94; on an architectural background, an entablature. There is text about the competition and the prizes. In the lower margin in gray: WELCOME.

Poster, Lyceum 1994, 1994
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Nancy Skolos.
1996-90-16

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

Against a black border, the central image, placed in the upper quadrant is an abstracted landscape design of brightly colored cut out shapes that suggest water, trees, mountains and sky. The colors are vivid blues, greens, yellow and lavender against a black mountain range that cuts across the image and merges with the black border of the poster. Below the image in white text at right,is the title, North Cascades, State of Washington.

Poster, North Cascades, State of Washington, 1972
offset lithograph on heavy, coated white wove paper.
Gift of Ken Friedman.
1997-19-242

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Vertical format. Color photographic reproduction of an image of a nude woman staring at the viewer. Over her head and resting on her shoudlers is a cage-like construction with a metal handle. A yellow linear form of a man's head encircles the image. Small blue circles with arrows projecting left suggest eyes and line of vision. Printed text in white and red at upper center. Red vertical band with black text runs length of sheet along right side. Verso: Photographic enlargement in light green and white, showing Ben-Day dot pattern of a smiling woman's face at center with portions of the hair and face overdrawn. A comic strip ballon projects from a mouth with the words: ind'fence / engst.ba9.dzyn; additional text below image. Along left edge alternating green and white blocks form a border.

Poster, Ind'fence Ov Hoo I M, 1990
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Ken Friedman.
1997-19-285

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

Photographic color reproduction of a beach with a floating waste transporter with yellow floatation tanks, at right. Above center in yellow block text "Artificial" and in white block letters in black "Nature". Below, across lower portion of the sheet imprinted in white, the date and place of the exhibition and a list of the participating artists.
Verso: Eight color photographic reproductions with short phrases of different sizes superimposed which creats a caption in juxtaposition to the images. The images/ captions are: a woman's face with a test tube/"culture"; muscle man ini water/"artificial intellegence" "packaged";computer simulation of a seated infant/ "genetic engineering", "hyperhuman"; a nude male in a landscape/"post-natural nature", "fantasy"; Elvis Presley waterskiing/"surrealized", "virtual reality"; a woman in a sauna/"geometric abstraction", "plasticized"; robotic arm/"biotechnology","self improvement", an abnormally shaped child's head/"waste products", "mutations", "end."

Poster, Artificial Nature, 1990
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Ken Friedman.
1997-19-432

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

A heading in blue reads "WEST POINT OF THE AIR". Underneath the words "FLYING CADETS" in white enclosed in red wings is seen. At the center is a red plane with two more following. Overlapping the flying plane is a mixture of planes in flying formation, landing, and others on base. At the bottom of the poster there is information regarding how to enlist in the US Army Corps.

Poster, West Point, 1940
81.3 × 63.5 cm (32 × 25 in.).
Gift of Louise Clémencon.
1949-108-9

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

Poster, herman miller, ca. 1972
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-167

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.

Poster, There Is No Finish Line, 1977
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-205

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

Poster, Mobil, Masterpiece Theatre Presents Pride and Prejudice, 1980–81

Poster, Mobil, Masterpiece Theatre Presents Pride and Prejudice, 1980–81
lithograph on paper.
1987-23-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster, Richard Sapper Design, 1993
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-25

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