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Poster, Obsessive-Compulsive Design
This is a Poster. It was designed by Edward Fella. It is dated March 10, 1999 and we acquired it in 2002. Its medium is offset lithograph on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In the age of digital design, Edward Fella stepped away from the keyboard so to speak to create expressive typographic systems that resemble scribbled illustrations. Fella’s signature abstract fonts exhibited irregular spacing between letterforms that were often drawn-into, making his designs original and difficult to standardize. In Fella’s work, type is dynamic, moving around the page, breaking out of the grid through a non-conformist process similar to they style of this poster for an AIGA/NY event on “obsessive-compulsive design.”
This object was
donated by
Edward Fella.
It is credited Gift of Edward Fella.
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- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Michiel Schuurman.
- 2008-22-2
- Poster, Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Non-Format.
- 2017-54-1
- Poster, Elsewhere Exhibition, KK Outlet Gallery, London
- screenprint on paper.
- Gift of Non-Format.
- 2017-54-3
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
![A vertical cream prospectus for Josef Hartwig's Bauhaus chess set with German text in black and red rotated at various angles, and three small black and red squares forming a right-angled right angle. To the left, rotated counter-clockwise in black capitalised German text is written [LUXUS U. GEBRAUCHSSPIELE], meaning [Luxury Use Games], with the LUXUS in a larger font than the U. GEBRAUCHSSPIELE. In the center, the German words [BAUHAUS HARTWIG], meaning [Bauhaus Hartwig] are written in black capitals, with the German word SCHACH, meaning [CHESS] written in red capitals underneath in larger font, with the S taking up the space of both lines. To the right of the 'h' of SCHACH the German words [ZU BEZIEHEN DURCH], meaning [released by] are written in small capitalised black letters. Below this to the right in black capitalised German text is written [STAATL. BAUHAUS WEIMAR], meaning [State Bauhaus Weimar], with Bauhaus Weimar underlined, implying that the chess set was released by the State Bauhaus in Weimar. Rotated counter-clockwise and growing from the 'h' in SCHACH the German words [GES. GESCH] are written in black capitals. Above and to the right of the 'h' in GESCH are three small black and red squares forming a right angled right angle, the bottom square is black with a red diamond inside, the square above is a red right angle with a black square at the bottom left and the square to the top left is black with a red x inside. To the top left of the square, capitalised black underlined German text reads [DIE SPIELSTEINE], meaning [The Game] with the German words [SIND IHREN FUNKTONEN] written in black capitals underneath. To the right of the black and red squares capitalised black German text reads [ENTSPRECHEND GESTALT], meaning [shape accordingly], possibly refering to the shape of the squares.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/358854_762bd5d79473231c_n.jpg "Prospectus, Bauhaus Hartwig Schach (Bauhaus Hartwig Chess), 1924")
- Prospectus, Bauhaus Hartwig Schach (Bauhaus Hartwig Chess), 1924
- lithograph.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.14
Its dimensions are
H x W: 43.3 × 28.1 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
It is inscribed
OCD Chair Scott Santoro Caress Text Monadnock Paper Mellow white eggshell Printed at PIP PRINTING Santa Clarita Valley CA AIGANY 164 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Cite this object as
Poster, Obsessive-Compulsive Design; Designed by Edward Fella (American, b. 1938); offset lithograph on cream wove paper; H x W: 43.3 × 28.1 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.); Gift of Edward Fella; 2002-8-16
