Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Multicolored poster advertising the Divisumma adding machine by Olivetti. Design consists of stylized printing ribbons in shades of grey interspersed with checkerboard squares of vivid colors. Small black numbers and symbols appear randomly on several of the gray squares and more consistently on the colored ones. Printed in black, on top of multi-colored squares, lower left: olivetti; on top of multi-colored squares, lower right: Divisumma.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Client
- Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A., Ivrea, Italy
- Date
- 1953
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of James A. Lapides and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 67.9 × 47.9 cm (26 3/4 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Mat: 71.1 × 55.6 cm (28 × 21 7/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
