Pour la Viellesse / Don Volontaire
1949 · Photolithograph
50 1/4 x 35 1/2" (127.6 x 90.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Carlo L. Vivarelli
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Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879�1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Swiss Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Carlo L. Vivarelli was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer whose work exemplified postwar modernism through geometric clarity and functional form. Working across print and typography, he advanced Swiss design principles emphasizing legibility, grid systems, and rational visual order. His practice helped establish the aesthetic and methodological foundations of mid-century Swiss design, prioritizing structure and legibility as primary organizing principles.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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