Object Details
- Designer
- Otl Aicher, German, 1922–1991
- Client
- Munich Organizing Committee of the 1972 Olympic Games, Munich, Germany
- Printer
- Franzis Print & Media GmbH Druckvorstufenservice, Munich, Germany
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster for the Munich Olympics featuring an image of three swimmers in the midst of a butterfly race. The image has been overlaid brightly saturated colors so that each of the three swimmers are rendered in bright orange, and the pool and water is rendered in purples and blues. At the bottom left corner, in orange sans-serif text: Müchen [Olympic Rings in white] 1972. Directly below the Olympic rings, the logo for the Munich Olympic games in white, an abstracted sunburst.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ken Friedman
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 1997-19-164
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 118.4 × 83.8 cm (46 5/8 in. × 33 in.)
- Frame: 119.9 × 85.4 × 1.9 cm (47 3/16 × 33 5/8 × 3/4 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1997-19-164
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4db2b8b76-f21f-4cb5-bb6e-19b2ff0050af
