100 Objects from Century of the Child

Paul Rand. Poster for SOS Children’s Village. 1996 Rand’s depiction of a child balancing on a textual tightrope—playful but precarious—was designed to promote SOS Children’s Village, an international charity for orphaned and abandoned children. The poster, which incorporates an intriguing detail of Children’s Games (1560), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, is thought to be Rand’s last work before his death. Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Paul Rand. Poster for SOS Children’s Village. 1996

Rand’s depiction of a child balancing on a textual tightrope—playful but precarious—was designed to promote SOS Children’s Village, an international charity for orphaned and abandoned children. The poster, which incorporates an intriguing detail of Children’s Games (1560), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, is thought to be Rand’s last work before his death.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

To find out more about Century of the Child visit MoMA.org/centuryofthechild.

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