Poster Art

South Dakota senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential bid was one of the most memorable campaigns in American political history. Despite a landslide loss to the incumbent Richard Nixon, McGovern’s campaign attracted widespread grassroots support, and his campaign posters represent a landmark in the history...

Rare & Collectible Even today, among the world's profusion of digital media and abundance of images, the poster remains a key means of communication and an important medium for designers artistic expression. But what makes a poster successful? How does a designer transform a blank piece...

Artist Peter Coffin began his work with the iconic designs of LA’s Colby Poster Printing Company in 2008. Over the years, he solicited artists and friends to contribute their dream concerts―invented lineups for impossible gigs―and combined them with the colourful poster backgrounds. This effort...

Ballyhoo! looks at the poster as a form of popular portraiture. These celebrity likenesses are dramatic - and often enormous - but in fact, what a poster communicates about an individual is usually secondary to its principal message: Barnum and Bailey announcing the arrival of...

Space Posters & Paintings: Art About NASA showcases a superb selection of paintings, illustrations and posters recording the history of space exploration. From as early as 1962, the NASA Art Program commissioned artists to capture the importance of their work by giving them unprecedented...

This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Featuring 50 tear-out posters by leading and emerging contemporary artists and designers including Paul Ellian, Shepard Fairey, DJ Spooky, Geoff McFetridge, James Victore and Vier5. Essays by...

Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. This concise, comprehensive and informative work focuses largely on Rodchenko's graphic work in the form of book jackets, posters and...

Mind-bending posters inspired by the iconic 1960s counterculture movement with 14 large-scale psychedelic black-light posters. Printed with fluorescent inks which glow when exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from black lights.  Printed on high-quality, durable cardstock, the posters are glued in for easy individual removal.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has become a British institution, bringing the work of hundreds of artists to the public in the largest event of its kind in the world. The academy's archivist has compiled this collection of more than 70 posters designed to...

In the mid-1970s, Andrzej Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish theatre and film companies, for whom he designed some of the period's most iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed...

Rare & Collectible Throughout India images of babies appear everywhere – on posters, in calendars and on billboards. But these are no ordinary babies – Chairman baby, Scientist baby, Farmer Baby – all make an appearance. Carriers of dreams, both personal and social, babies...

Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era through to the onset of Glasnost, Koretsky produced some of the most memorable images of...

A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice.Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity to...

Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier’s illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers and leaders in business, Frazier’s illustrations...

Although the field of graphic design continues to evolve with the introduction of new technology, print will always matter when it comes to connecting with audiences in a visceral and sensorial way. Whether they go for more traditional techniques like letterpress printing or try...