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Category Archives: Art Deco Posters&Graphics
AIRPLANE GRAPHICS—THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!
Hier/Aujourd’hui Air Show 1931 ;S.Peratt ;46″ x 61 1/2″ In 1931, the composition in the foreground Aujourd’hui was very today (while the white, biplane figure was very yesterday). Time flies. But the mystery and romance of people travelling in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Benny & Peigno, Bernard Villemot, Geo Ham, Illustrated vintage magazines, Lucien Boucher, Ruehl Heckman, vintage artistic magazine, vintage aviation posters, Vintage Transportation Posters
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WOMAN’S HOME COMPANION–DOMESTICITY WITH AN EDGE
“Woman’s Home Companion” is not a (magazine) name to immediately bring to mind an imperative of the mysterious side of life. Practical food ingredients, toothpaste, floor wax, Arch Preserver Shoes (allowing the little lady to get back on the golf … Continue reading
ROSE ET NOIR (UPBEAT AND DOWNBEAT)
L’Ombre de la Liberte (1931)Paul Iribe;12 ½” x 10”;litho I of IX from Rose et Noir In 1931, the Nicolas Paris-based wine store chain, produced a deluxe lithographic project , titled, Rose et Noir. This effort was a bid to … Continue reading
LET’S GET AWAY FROM IT ALL—APPROACHES TO TRAVEL GRAPHICS
There are many ways to induce travel dreams, and graphic designers in the poster and other visual areas have to hit upon the one that most effectively meets the client’s needs (and at the same time satisfying the artist’s comprehensive … Continue reading
IT’S HERE—A SEASON OF JOIE DE VIVRE!
Joy to the world! Let’s explore the joys of Christmas as mustered by some of our most vivid graphics. The great pochoir shown here is about a city girl in love—not the least of which, with the holiday season. From … Continue reading
GEORGE BARBIER–SPIRITING TRACES OF THE MODERN WORLD INTO OLD FRANCE
The deluxe cruise ship of a magazine that was L’Illustration, 80 or so years ago, was not simply a tireless and generous repository of visual arts and belles-lettres, but it was also a testing ground for modernists—especially graphic designers— looking … Continue reading
GEORGE BARBIER AND THE NECESSITY OF EXTRAVAGANCE
Paris’ reputation as the center of brilliant elegance was the upshot of a long history of ruthless efforts to, if not obviate a critical mass of rustic obtuseness, at least circumvent it. Versailles and the chateaux of the Loire valley … Continue reading
KNOWN FOR THEIR CARING—BRITISH VINTAGE GRAPHICS!
This exquisite lithographic poster, by the very accomplished and special, Austin Cooper, is a paradigm of vintage British graphics. There is the love for history, literacy and the land and sea. And there is modelling of persons in such a … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Austin Cooper, Tom Purvis, Vintage British posters, Vintage London Magazine, Vintage Transportation Graphics, Vintage Transportation Posters, Vintage Travel Posters
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THE INIMITABLE L’ILLUSTRATION!
Whereas now we have the internet to put us into a state of dazzlement about the creative energies of the whole wide world, 75 years ago there was L’Illustration, the flagship of the French fleet of vehicles of visual impact.
THE ERTÉ TOUCH
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff [1892-1990]) declined to go along with the urging of his father, an admiral of the Russian fleet, to take up a military career; but, notwithstanding, his was an endeavor as a navigator and warrior, of a … Continue reading