National Business Calendar Awards
Thomas Eckersley
British, 1914–1997
1981
A lithograph poster by Thomas Eckersley that uses bold, abstract teardrop forms and spare typography to announce the National Business Calendar Awards while projecting a sense of ordered modernity.
You are immediately struck by three overlapping, elongated teardrop shapes in graduated greys fanning upward across a white field, anchored by a bright orange headline and clean sans‑serif type that lend the image a brisk, calm clarity.
Made toward the end of Eckersley’s career, this work exemplifies his modernist reduction of information to striking pictorial forms and clear typography, a visual approach that helped define British corporate and institutional design in the late 20th century.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
30 × 20" (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
785.2015
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