Spanish artist and illustrator Fernando Vicente's latest book-centric illustrations are a set of four posters for the Autumn Book Fair in Madrid, Enjoy! Previously on Book Patrol: Fernando Vicente does Dracula Portraits by Fernando Vicente Fernando Vicente illustrates The Communist Manifesto
New book chronicles the glory days of airline visuals
Once upon a time flying wasn't such a hassle. At its height the airline industry was the bees knees of postwar culture. From the mid-forties to the the mid-seventies flying was the way to go. The world got smaller as new opportunities and possibilities connected the four corners of the globe. It was also a time of some stunning graphic design. The posters and printed detritus that accompanied the golden age of air travel mark a high-spot in the history of advertising and corporate design. It is the graphic side of these times that M. C. Hühne chronicles in Airline Visual Identity...
Get out the Blacklight. Posters from the Psychedelic Era
"David, The Head" Neon Blacklight Poster, 1970 by CalanBlacklight posters were a main ingredient of the psychedelic movement. They were part and parcel of the hippie lifestyle, an essential part of the trip.“The blacklight poster was actually a medium capable of mimicking the effects of the new wonder drug. With the ability to glow and vibrate under ultraviolet light, the posters could simulate the sensations and visual distortions one experienced during an acid trip.” says Daniel Donahue in his introduction to kick off his 2009 compilation, Ultraviolet: 69 Classic Blacklight Posters from the Aquarian Age and Beyond. Love how a couple are...
The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center
This installment of In The Stacks takes us to The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center. The museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming who started collecting posters in 1995, the year the Chinese government ceased the long-standing practice of creating these propaganda-laced posters.The collection is "dedicated to documenting the changes of modern China as depicted on thousands upon thousands of striking posters from 1910 to 1990."The collection holds 6000 posters produced from 1940 to 1990. The museum also holds a significant collection of Shanghai Lady Calendar posters from 1910 to 1940.Shanghai Lady Calendar posterNPR's Shanghai correspondent Frank Langfitt pays a visit to the museumPreviously on In...
Literary Journeys: A new poster series by Owen Smith for BART
The latest installment of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) poster series is a set of three original book-themed posters by Owen Smith.The series features three literary icons from the Bay Area; Dashiell Hammett, Jack London and Amy Tan. In each poster a commuter is reading one of the author's books while related imagery swirls around them.The image above features characters from Hammett's The Maltese Falcon while out the train window you see the sign for John’s Grill, the iconic Union Square restaurant that appears in the book. Next is Jack London's 1903 novella The Call of the Wild. A...