Of all periods of graphic design, my favorite has to be the early 20th century. I love the use of color, and the typography is just beautiful. Recently I’ve found a nice source of inspiration in that vein at InternationalPoster.com where there is a huge collection of vintage posters searchable by subject, period, style, artist, etc. They also have a very interesting history of poster art to peruse. Some of my favorite finds there:
Artist: Mario Borgoni
Artist: Henry Le Monnier
Artist: unknown (hmmmm, maybe he went down with the ship)
Artist: Joseph Leyendecker
Artist: Antonius Molkenboer
What about you? What period of design most inspires you?
I love old posters! Thanks for pointing me to this site.
I have the Titanic one!
I love any kind of pin-up art. That’s always been my favorite. In fact, I have three pin-up ad posters that I need to get framed so we can hang them!
I love the exact same period. It makes modern day advertising illustration look pale in comparison.
Beautiful. They truly are works of art.
Poster number two – Tobler must have been created for the world’s first Duty Free shop …
Cool posters! Thanks for sharing the site. I like the Tobler and Titanic posters.
thanks for sharing the site! i absolutely love old vintage posters!!!
Very cool vintage posters! I love the old typography, too.
Titanic is awesome… wonder if it’s true old poster, or someone created it after it sunk
Another great resource for old illustrations, advertisements etc is the library of congress. You can search their database. They’ve got a lot of neat stuff- some of which is public domain.
I love these vintage posters. Thank you for posting them!