Travel Posters
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Destination & Mode of multi-Transport Posters
Miami - 1990!
Although not strictly a destination poster - it's nice to see the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL) utilising the very essence of streamline moderne travel artwork
Vogue beckons you to travel .......
Cover art by Eduardo Garcia Benito (1891 - 1981) in 1926 and 1927 respectively - images courtesy of The Vogue Archive
The Canary Islands
Beautiful Garden of Flowers of Eternal Spring is the enticing invitation - attributed to Moliné circa 1930
Hawaii USA
London
Ranks of angular guards adorn this great 1930 railway poster by Pieter Irwin Brown, Dutch-Irish artist who worked in London in the 1920s and early 1930s - image sourced from Tumblr
Marseilles France
Marseilles-Iles Baleares-Alger in 5 hours 1935 Air France travel poster by Albert Solon (1897-1973) sourced from Pinterest
Panhard
A 1930 poster for Panhard by Alexis Kow featuring all modes of publicly accessible travel - Panhard's strapline boasts 'complétant les grandes lignes maritimes, aériennes, ferroviaires panhard dessert le réseau routier' (Bringing together all the major maritime, air and rail arteries
Panhard serves the entire public travel network) - image sourced from French Vintage Posters with thanks
Paris France
Come to the City of Lights in French and English - contemporary poster by Gary Joseph Cieradkowski, in the 1930s style of AM.Cassandre (1901 - 1968) - image courtesy and sourced from Pinterest
Vichy France
Evening at the Casino in Vichy 1935 Poster by H Chauffard - image courtesy and sourced from artnet.com
Warszawa (Warsaw) Poland
Come to Warszawa in Polish, French, German and English - poster by Tadeusz Lucjan Gronowski (1894 - 1990) - image courtesy and sourced from invaluable.com_auctioneers
USSR (The New Travel Land) via Intourist
Stalin invites you to visit the USSR with an enticing poster by Max Litvak and Robert Fedor - image courtesy of Christies Auctioneers via the Daily Mail
An insightful comment from the Daily Mail's article : The Intourist agency - the official travel agency of the Soviet Union - targeted only an external audience, mainly in Britain and Germany, meaning the posters were intended to encourage inbound tourism from Europe. As such, there is a distinctly capitalist look to each image - the type of message that was generally deemed to be appropriate among those within the USSR's secretive internal workings. The examples in the sale were produced specifically for the English and German tourist markets and promote the USSR as 'The New Travel Land.' Designed by various artists working for the agency in the first half of the 20th Century, these tourism posters demonstrate the scope and breadth of the advertising campaign, as well as the emphasis on art deco colours and design in hopes of attracting the Western European traveller.
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