Category Archives: Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics

EXPLORING  TUNNELS AND BRIDGES IN VINTAGE POSTERS AND GRAPHICS 

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/transportation-fly-by-boac-and-qantas-australia-1954.html Although various versions of tunnels and bridges have been with us for many centuries, the ones, we in graphic-land know, are of quite recent vintage. We can and will delight here, in the heart, dazzle and beauty of such … Continue reading →

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THEATRE IN VINTAGE POSTER ART

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/travel-londons-offer-1938.html There is a glut of movie posters, although you can’t have too many vintage movie posters as created by the astonishing Stenberg brothers, who rocked in the early years of Soviet Russia. (And, of course, there is a pantheon … Continue reading →

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SENSATIONAL DESIGN IN VINTAGE POSTER ART

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/publishing-salon-des-cent-1899.html To say that a priority of flashy sensations is in the air these days is not telling you anything you don’t already know. A recent and generally decried Nicolas Refn film, The Neon Demon (2016), tackles the rabid self-assertion … Continue reading →

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A FORGOTTEN FORTUNE, APPEARING IN FORTUNE MAGAZINE

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Jim Clark

After years of sustaining a series of vintage design displays, we’re returning to the first instance (posted back on November 4,2014). But here we’re not about the witty and dazzling deco cover and the fascinating, quirky business concerns (such as … Continue reading →

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PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOSTS WITHIN VINTAGE POSTERS AND GRAPHICS

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Jim Clark

En route pour la Suisse 1935;Herbert Matter;40″ x 25″; B+, L When we began to search for and sell vintage posters we were adamantly opposed to photography getting a look-in. So thrilled were we with the fabulous roster of illustrators we … Continue reading →

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MAKING WAVES IN VINTAGE GRAPHIC  ART

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Jim Clark

This bustling locomotive, in addition to being a rare and somewhat oddly satisfying vintage poster, is a cue to looking closely at the varied and intriguing means of putting across motion (that delicious phenomenon) in eye-and-heart-catching visual advertisements. It may … Continue reading →

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COMING OF AGE—ON THE SILVER SCREEN AND IN ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Jim Clark

Buy U.S. War Stamps Bonds 1942; Al Parker; 20” x 14 ¼”; A-,L The film, BOYHOOD, is a coming-of-age creation, with a difference. It particularly reminds us that in the golden era of graphic design (and right up to the present) this irresistible … Continue reading →

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GRAPHIC CIVILIZATION AND WILD ANIMALS

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Jim Clark

ggg Antelope 1989;Kazumasa Nagai;41″x29″ It might be a good idea to begin our embrace of original vintage poster design’s focus upon animals, by way of a creature’s-eye-view of what is thrilling. The work shown above, Kazumasa Nagai’s reverie on the … Continue reading →

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SURREALIST GRAPHIC ART—BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Jim Clark

We’ve gotten together before, on this blog site, to mutually marvel at the impact of original vintage poster art with a Surrealist twist, as an ardent exponent of some of the most incisive reflections upon the subject and lifeline of … Continue reading →

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ENLIVENING THE EVERYDAY—GREAT PHOTOS IN VINTAGE MAGAZINES (PART ONE)

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Jim Clark

There is a special mojo to be found in enjoying the upshot of effectively photographing workaday entities, a shimmer that is all the more powerful in remaining bound to materiality. Today we want to look at this phenomenon glowing from … Continue reading →

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