Vintage Advertising Poster Prints

Before photography became the dominant medium of advertising, commercial art meant the poster — and for roughly 70 years from the 1890s to the 1960s, the poster attracted some of the greatest graphic artists of the age. The commercial brief (sell this product, announce this event, attract this audience) pushed artists to their most concentrated, direct, and visually powerful work.

Vintage Advertising Traditions

• Art Nouveau advertising — the poster art of Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Jules Chéret, and the Belle Époque tradition. Decorative, sinuous, and characterised by the female figure as ornamental presence.
• Art Deco and Modernist posters — the bold, geometric poster art of the 1920s and 1930s. A.M. Cassandre's railway and ocean liner posters, travel advertising, and the stripped-back modernist approach to commercial design.
• Mid-century advertising illustration — the confident, optimistic commercial art of the 1950s. Consumer goods, airlines, and the American advertising visual tradition.
• Product and brand advertising — vintage advertising for specific products and brands: Campari, Vermouth, cigarette companies, luxury goods, and the full range of commercial visual history.

Sizes and Framing

Vintage advertising poster prints are available in seven sizes from 21x30cm to 100x150cm, framed or unframed. All produced on 230gsm matte art paper with archival inks.

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