In conjunction with my post over at the Nonist proper about the poster art of Tomi Ungerer I would like to offer some related content here, namely some pieces Mr. Ungerer created for an exhibition at IBM’s New York City headquarters. The exhibition, held in 1966, was called Some Computer ABC’s. See below.
Quote: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) regularly creates elaborate exhibits, meant to extol and explain the mysteries and advantages of our new computer technology and IBM’S contributions in that area. Most of these begin with an exhibition at IBM’S New York City headquarters at the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, then tour the country. It was for such an exhibition in 1964, titled “Some Computer ABC’s,” that Tomi was commissioned to create large poster panels for window exhibit displays.
Here are 6 of the 25 panels, as presented in the book The Poster Art of Tomi Ungerer published in 1971.
Groovy. Nothing quite says “IBM” like illustrated limericks!