Category: Posters
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The iconic film posters of Bill Gold
American graphic designer Bill Gold, who created posters for hundreds of Hollywood’s most renowned films, died aged 97 on May 20th, 2018, in Greenwich, Connecticut. One of America’s most successful poster designers began his career at the age of 20, after graduating from an illustration and design course at Pratt Institute. Gold got a job…
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The posters of Abram Games
Abram Games was one of the 20th century’s great graphic designers, and the only person in army history to be given the title of Official War Poster Artist. Anti-smoking poster, unpublished, 1970. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Abram produced some of Britain’s most memorable images and designs, for a client list that…
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It’s All Our Blood, by Harry Pearce
On August 6th, 1945, twin atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing between 300,000 and 900,000 people.
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The Tate Gallery by Tube
Tate by Tube is reportedly the best-selling poster in the London Transport Museum Shop. A fantastic design created by David Booth in the late 80s. It was commissioned in 1987 as part of “Art on The Underground,” a campaign set up the previous year to re-establish the London Transport poster tradition. David Booth, working at…
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Best use of a shop window postcard space
The finalists for the Chip Shop Awards have been selected. Here are a few entries from the past couple of years in the “best use of a shop window postcard space” category.