Exchange: Exploring principles of design, engineering, and organization

Exploring principles of design, engineering, and organization

This print consists of a series of horizontal bands that are made up of a variety of patterns, from grids to dots. The colors used are black, dark and light orange, yellow, pink, tan, white, blue, and red. At the base of the print, there is text in tan that reads: "The theory of relativity, may certainly be a true description of the facts concerned, even though the theory a theory which took such liberties fully, with the help of what is nothing but a host of metaphors taken from the languages of physics, of biology, and of social life, works out / their categorical structure, and only recasts what has formed concentric circles, surrounded by smaller orbs of the same space; then again a vertical band filled with horizontal strokes; and lastly, two vertical bands of concentric circles". The print is signed and numbered (l.r.) "Eduardo Paolozzi A.P 7".

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Theory of Relativity
screenprint on paper
40 3/16 in x 26 9/16 in (102.08 cm x 67.47 cm)
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick

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This photolithographic print in shades of pink and blue has a series of grids and squares that overlap to create a kind of optical illlusion.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Becoming is Meaning like Nothing is Going
photolithograph on paper
14 15/16 in x 10 in (38 cm x 25.4 cm)
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick

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This print is in a series of colors: silver, black, three shades of purple, pink, tan, orange, and yellow. There are a series of bands with different background designs, mainly stripes, that are overlayed with shapes: triangles, hexagons, and trapezoids. At the base of the print, there is a pink band with text that reads: "COMPUTER - EPOCH. Another datum, the sound - integration of exactly 70 unimodulary equivalent flaite groups, linear operations with coefficients. A third element in theory is based on the dialectic of identity. The yes or no of the borderzone [<em>sic.</em>] developes an identical / transformation of information over the entire chains of cells. Ambivalence between optical isolation of form and openess in structuring while the stream of sub - atomic energy dribbles out. Each epoch is the static instantaneous picture of a process. This represents a / standstill of becoming not a static end, a condition of pluralism. / JUNE 1967" . Print is dedicated, signed and dated in pencil (l.r.) "For Dia

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Computer-Epoch
screenprint on paper
40 3/16 in x 26 9/16 in (102.08 cm x 67.47 cm)
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick

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This vertical abstract composition resembles a quilt-like pattern of red on white on red background.

Anni Albers
J.H.A. I
screenprint on paper
21 3/4 in x 19 1/4 in (55.25 cm x 48.89 cm)
Gift of Virginia R. Young in memory of Frederick A. Horowitz

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This vertical print shows an abstract composition with a pattern of broad white strokes in a grid-like arrangement on a green background.

Anni Albers
J.H.A. II
1985
screenprint | paper
Gift of Virginia R. Young in memory of Frederick A. Horowitz
2015/2.47

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This work is a square, abstract composition with thick, overlapping yellow and gray lines in a labyrinthine pattern. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Anni Albers 1970." and titled and numbered (l.l.) "Yellow Meander 51/75" in pencil.

Anni Albers
Yellow Meander
screenprint on paper
28 1/8 in x 24 1/8 in (71.44 cm x 61.28 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Richard H. Shackson

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A rendering of a black cube with 'NEXT' spelled in colored text across its face. Below, in colored text, it reads: "The sign of the Next generation of computers...for Education".

Paul Rand
NEXT
offset lithograph on paper
30 in x 22 in (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Gift of Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo and Maria Phillips

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A black poster featuring an image of an eye, a bee, and an 'M' with lines dividing it. The bottom left offers a textual explanation of the symbols.

Paul Rand
EYE-BEE-M (Rebus)
offset lithograph on paper
36 in x 24 in (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm)
Gift of Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo and Maria Phillips

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This print has a series of images on a drawn grid. They include flat images of a threeway plug, a figure resembling Mickey Mouse, a tube of redish orange lipstick, and a pink Good Humor popsicle. The objects are arranged two by two on a gridded back ground. Labels accompany the individual objects: "three way plug", "geometric mouse", "lipstick", and "good humour", respectively. In addition, behind the lipstick there is a drawing of a light switch that is labeled "switches". The print is numbered (l.l.) "210/250" and signed (l.r.) "Oldenburg" in pencil.

Claes Oldenburg
System of Iconography--Plug, Mouse, Good Humor, Lipstick, Switches
lithograph on paper
28 1/8 in x 23 3/8 in (71.44 cm x 59.37 cm);32 1/8 in x 26 1/8 in (81.6 cm x 66.36 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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Claes Oldenburg
Symbolic Self-Portrait with Equals
lithograph on paper
28 1/2 in x 21 in (72.4 cm x 53.3 cm)
Bequest of the Estate of David Caldwell Leedy

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Grainy white clouds and a gold sun on a blue background above black Japanese characters in red and green blocks.

Ikko Tanaka
The 18th Sankei Kanze Noh Performance
screenprint on paper
40 ½ in x 28 ¾ in (102.87 cm x 73.02 cm)
Gift of the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion

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