Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- In upper half of sheet, the abstract rendering of a bird resembling a paper airplane, depicted in heavy black line over angular white shape on a slate-blue ground, flying towards the left, below two puffy white clouds. Below, at center right, text in black and red: QUICKEST WAY BY / AIR MAIL / ASK AT YOUR NEAREST POST OFFICE.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- British General Post Office, London, England
- Date
- 1935
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 75.7 × 50.5 cm (29 13/16 × 19 7/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
