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Herbert Bayer
Electronics— A New Science for a New World1942

Not on view
Horizontal print of two brown-skinned hands holding a large vacuum tube containing a globe of Earth, set against a blue sky with atomic orbit diagrams and red all-caps text
Designer
Herbert Bayer
Austria, also active Germany and United States, 1900-1985
Client
General Electric Company
founded 1892, Schenectady, New York
Publisher
N. W. Ayer & Son
1869 - 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art Director
Leo Lionni
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1910 - 1999, active Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art Director
Charles Toucey Coiner
United States, 1898 - 1989, active Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Title
Electronics— A New Science for a New World
Date Made
1942
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
8 1/4 × 11 × 1/2 in. (21 × 28 × 1.27 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Council Acquisitionsersio Fund and the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation
Accession Number
M.2021.172
Classification
Periodicals
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Copyright
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan Urban