Tag Archives: Vintage Transportation Posters

DOMESTICITY IN VINTAGE POSTER ART

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/pochoir-le-nid-de-pinsons-1922-gbt.html A pochoir tending to the home front comprises, for most people, an endless and fascinating endeavor. Thereby, when attracting a product, a graphic artist will often look to that scene for the means of winning over a customer to … Continue reading →

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“AMERICA, AMERICA!” AS SEEN BY VINTAGE POSTERS  (PART ONE)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Jim Clark

  http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/transportation-hawaii-by-clipper-pan-american-world-airways-1948.html Love it or hate it, America is a big story on this little planet! Graphic designers know that its non-stop show-time flicks out a special pop we can’t stop watching. In our two-part coverage of this extravaganza we’ll … Continue reading →

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BOATS, BUILDINGS AND BREAKTHROUGHS IN VINTAGE GRAPHIC ART

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/transportation-les-poissons-volants-c.1950.html The other day, we attended a design show where two of the speakers were Jay Osgerby, from London, and Alex Mustonen, from Brooklyn. Osgerby’s account of the erudition, planning and energy as to materials, functions and composition was a … Continue reading →

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ABUSED AND ENDANGERED WILDLIFE GRACING VINTAGE POSTERS

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Jim Clark

http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/nielsen-far-east-by-sas-cranes-c.1959.html We live in an age when invention has never been more abundant and thrilling. Arts and science-based inventions carry us to seemingly vast improvements over the way it used to be. Egged on by a sensation-cued media, we are … Continue reading →

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PEPPY AND WONDERFUL VANTAGE POINTS IN VINTAGE GRAPHIC ART

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Jim Clark

Graphic designers (even today) live to light a fire under the viewer, in hopes that the attractiveness and excitement of the evocation will create an irresistible demand for a specific product or service and that the irresistibility will lift the … Continue reading →

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WHEN OCEANS WERE DEEP–PASSENGER SHIPS ON THE ATLANTIC

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Jim Clark

 Allan Line Royal Mail  c.1910;To and From Canada;James S. Mann;40”x25”;A-,P Before aviation hit its stride, but after sailing ships were retired, steamships (designed with great care) were the main link between Europe and North America. In this blog we’ll narrow … 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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THEY MAKE YOU LOOK!

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Jim Clark

The other day, while on a bike ride to the outer limits of Toronto’s East, we saw a family of wild turkeys in a wildlife preserve. Immediately our attention was absorbed by that delicate and resilient energy. Such magnetism finds … Continue reading →

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AIRPLANE GRAPHICS—THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Jim Clark

     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 →

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KNOWN FOR THEIR CARING—BRITISH VINTAGE GRAPHICS!

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Jim Clark

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 →

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