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Jean David - vintage travel posters from Israel

Israel -the land of the Bible Tourism posters by Jean David (L) c1954 (r) 195?
produced for the State of Israel Tourist Centre

My Knowledge of Jean David (Sometimes referred to as Jan David) is limited. However, what work I’ve seen from him has been nothing less that stellar. Just look at the posters above. I could easily see someone slanging these at a Flatstock poster convention. Dang, I totally nerd out when I see this stuff. Its just so good.

Looks like the whale is riding a boat of waves. Meanwhile, Jonah is relaxing after downing a keg of Vitamen C. Just look at all that orange!

GIG POSTERS

From: http://www.honeyisfunny.com/

Italic Poster

Self initiated project started in 2007. The limited edition [100] screenprint [white on black Plike] is now sold out, but stay tuned for a second edition print some time in 2010. Photo by Sven Ellingen.

Neville Brody Poster by ~computerkid108

89 swiss posters

see swiss poster collection at ;http://ryan.library.cmu.edu/fmi/xsl/swiss7/tour.xsl?-view

Switzerland: poster for Swiss Tourist Board

Poster for the Swiss Tourist Board, designed by Herbert Matter, c. 1932. Herbert Matter Archives/Alex Matter

swiss poster

The Swiss government has launched a poster database featuring just about every poster published and archived in Switzerland. The above example is the work of Joseph Mueller-Brockmann.

polish poster

Good archive of Polish poster design since 1940, with a bit of Saul Bass thrown in for good measure (and I guess influence/reference).

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
(Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa) (1864-1901):
Divan Japonaise
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
(Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa) (1864-1901):
Jane Avril

Outstanding examples of his work are La Goulou Entering the Moulin Rouge (1892, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi), Jane Avril Entering the Moulin Rouge (1892, Courtauld Gallery, London), and Au salon de la rue des Moulins (1894, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi).
He was acclaimed as "The soul of Montmartre", the Parisian quarter where he made his home, frequenting the circus, the theater, and local brothels. He portrayed life at the Moulin Rouge and other Montmartre and Parisian nightspots. He lived in a brothel for long periods. He painted singer Yvette Guilbert, Louise Weber (La Goulue) a dancer who created the "French Can-Can", and the dancer Jane Avril. Toulouse-Lautrec gave painting lessons to Suzanne Valadon, one of his models. By the 1890s he had become a leading figure in the Parisian art world. The largest exhibition of his work during his lifetime was held at London’s Goupil Gallery in 1898.An alcoholic for most of his adult life, in the 1890s he began to drink even more heavily and was placed in a sanatorium. He died from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis on 9th September 1901 aged 36, at the family estate in Malromé. He is buried in Verdelais, in the Gironde, a few kilometres from his birthplace. He predeceased his father and so never inherited the family title, derived from that of the ancient Counts of Toulouse. (Lautrec is a town not far fromToulouse)

“Moulin Rouge- La Goulue”

In “Moulin Rouge- La Goulue” we see the introduction of typography into Lautrec’s work. This lithograph poster would have been a very fresh and new advertising tool of the time. This poster heightens the idea of the spectacle as all those watching are without colour or even much form whereas the dancer in the middle of the scene is given detail and vibrancy. From the backround of the painting we can see, yet again, that this scene is taking place in a bourgeouis setting as the backround of the painting has been reduced down to merely a silhouette of black top hats. If we were in any doubt as to who would be in attendance, the character in the foreground of the painting makes the viewers very obvious with Lautrec’s stylised view of the upper class in a suit jacket and top hat. This stylised version would come to be fully realised in the early twentieth century Art Nouveau style.