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Eskay's Pentaplex

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Advertisement design for a drug company. On yellow ground, three silhouettes of bowl and branch of spoon (image cut off by edge of sheet): black (on left of sheet) and red (above white on right side of sheet). Name of medicine imprinted on black and red spoons; photo image of smiling young girl in braids on white spoon. Imprinted diagonally, left half of sheet, in red: We suggest that your prescriptions for; in white: Eskay's Pentaplex/in red: specify at least 2 teaspoonfuls 3 times daily./in white: supplied in 12 fl. oz. bottles; right half of sheet, in black: Eskay's; in white: Pentaplex/in black: makes B Complex therapy/palatable.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Graphic Designer
Paul Rand, American, 1914–1996
Date
1945–55
Credit Line
Gift of Marion S. Rand
Medium
Offset lithograph on coated white paper
Dimensions
31.8 x 35.6 cm (12 1/2 x 14 in. )
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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