Poster depicts tapestry of printer control marks in various tones of magenta, purple, cyan, yellow, green, black and white. These marks are presented in circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, and lines. On the reverse side, the text advertises a series of exhibitions on editorial dsign helf in 2008 in the town of Chaumont, France.

The image is © Fanette Mellier. There is one other image of this object. See our image rights statement.

See more objects with the tag pattern, colors, geometric, ombre, posters, color gradation, exhibition poster, microchip, offset lithograph, gradient.

See more objects with the color lightblue palegoldenrod lavender darkgrey plum or see all the colors for this object.

Object Timeline

2008	Work on this object began.
2013	We acquired this object.
2014	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2018	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Poster, Specimen

This is a Poster. It was designed by Fanette Mellier. It is dated 2008 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

The Specimen poster, designed by Fanette Mellier, was featured in Cooper-Hewitt’s 2012 exhibition, Graphic Design: Now in Production, and is depicted on the exhibition catalog’s cover. Particularly engaging is the way the lower-right corner is folded back to reveal the poster’s text, which advertises a series of exhibitions on editorial design held in 2008 in the town of Chaumont, France.
To the general public, the non-repetitive pattern of colorful geometric signs appears to resemble a diagram of a microchip. To the graphic designer, however, these symbols are immediately recognizable as printers’ control marks. According to Mellier, she placed the text on the poster's reverse to avoid interrupting the tapestry-like design, but did so in a location that allows the viewer to easily access the information without folding the paper. The poster won second prize at the 2011 Chaumont International Poster and Graphic Design Festival.

This object was donated by Fanette Mellier. It is credited Gift of Fanette Mellier.

This white panel is embedded with loosely arranged, multicolor silk threads. The piles of threads are thin enough to see individually arranged strands that create asymmetrical spirals and circles. The bundle's colors are repeated and slightly overlap but like-color piles do not touch. There are eleven thread colors total: bright orange, lilac, cerulean blue, bubblegum pink, emerald green, gray, bright yellow, salmon pink, indigo blue, bright red, and bright teal.

Textile Panel, Spread Threads, since 1999
silk thread, polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.2a,b

Color Blanket
wool, acetate.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Clif Lund-Rollins.
2016-35-84

Color Blanket
acrylic, nylon.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Stanley Tanenbaum.
2016-35-85

Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Textile, Zambra
polyester.
1988-111-11

Sidewall, Bullies
screen-printed, rayon flock on tyvek.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Friends of....
2002-4-1

A twill woven cotton and merino wool blanket with twenty-five horizontal bands of color which increase and descrease in saturation in small block increments from one side to the other. The colors include violet, olive green, pink, pale blue and lemon yellow. At the top of the blanket the words [RAW COLOR, MULTITONE, INDEX COLLECTION] are printed in violet capital letters

Blanket, Index Collection, 2012
organic cotton warp, merino wool weft.
Gift of Raw Color.
2013-22-1

Its dimensions are

175 x 118.6 cm (5 ft. 8 7/8 in. x 46 11/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Poster, Specimen; Designed by Fanette Mellier (French, b. 1977); France; offset lithograph on paper; 175 x 118.6 cm (5 ft. 8 7/8 in. x 46 11/16 in.); Gift of Fanette Mellier; 2013-18-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color and Teaspoon Gallery: Recent Acquisitions.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/48KgH/
Accession Number 2013-18-1
Object ID 35460835