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IBM / Work

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
On black ground, white text, upper area: Productivity; at center in white block letters: WORK, with the word SELF inside in green. Lower right: I don’t like work- / no man does-/ but I like what is / in work-the chance / to find yourself. / Your own reality- / for yourself, not for / others-what no other / man can ever know. / Joseph Conrad / IBM [logo].
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Tom Bluhm, American, b. 1943
Client
IBM, Armonk, New York, USA
Date
1976
Credit Line
Gift of Various Donors
Medium
Screenprint on paper
Dimensions
53.4 x 38.2 cm (21 in. x 15 1/16 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster

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