This poster, designed by Katherine McCoy, advertises the graduate program in design at the Cranbrook Institute of Art in Michigan, USA, where McCoy was formerly chairperson. It is from the early 1990s and was donated to the V&A's poster collection by the Design Museum in London. It is a good example of how education, and specifically design education, can be promoted.

Text is printed on top of a collage of images. Words are paired into couples such as ‘art / science’, ‘language / thought’ and ‘global / local’. The word couplings operate both as information and as design elements. The poster design communicates its message effectively, both in word and image.