Elektra
1966
Artist
Seymour Chwast
DIMENSIONS
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.4307
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Film, The Push Pin Legacy, Typography
Elektra Film Productions was a New York animation studio specializing in commercials. Around 1962, it created a promotional video for the Amalgamated Lithographers of America to show off the lithographic process—one of the foundational methods of printing posters. To represent Elektra’s move from West 59th Street to Madison Avenue, Seymour Chwast incorporates a variety of figures and letterforms, all headed off the right side of the page
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