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This poster designed by Seymour Chwast for Herman Miller Furniture Company is all about the details. Chwast skillfully packed a bustling city scene overflowing with conversation into the poster’s vertical format, requiring the viewer to look closely and engage with the design’s dialogue as though reading a comic or storybook animated by the designer’s careful attention to gesture and form. The scale of Chwast’s design presents an interesting departure from the furniture company’s iconic graphics. Art director Stephen Frykholm, Herman Miller’s first in-house graphic designer, often approached detail as the essential element of a composition, creating a zoomed-in point of view that abstracted forms into geometric lines rendered in super-saturated hues. Though Frykholm worked with consultant Ralph Caplan to develop the design scheme and text for the advertisement, he proposed commissioning a celebrated graphic designer to illustrate and sign the poster, allowing it to function as both an advertisement as well as a gift for special Herman Miller customers.[1] Frykholm chose Seymour Chwast, one of the country’s leading graphic designers and, together with Milton Glaser, one of the co-founders of Push Pin Studios. The resulting poster celebrates both Herman Miller and Chwast and dem
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