Vintage Poster Mix

About Vintage Poster Mix

Colour lithography made the large printed poster cheap, and from the 1890s artists treated advertising and exhibition posters as a serious field of design. The selection follows several schools rather than one style.

Art Nouveau appears in Privat-Livemont’s “Absinthe Robette”, a “Jugend” cover with cherry branches, the October 1898 cover of “The Poster” and a peacock design for Macmillan’s novels. Zoo posters show a lynx, a shoebill, a flamingo and, for Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, a panda. The Bauhaus group gathers versions of the 1923 Weimar exhibition poster, “Das Triadische Ballett” and “Die Bühne im Bauhaus”. Moriz Jung’s variety cards, NASA’s retro travel posters and old charts of swimming strokes and phrenology add odder pieces. Each poster is reproduced as a giclée print with pigment inks, made to order in Berlin, on matte 210 g/m² fine art paper or 400 g/m² cotton canvas, A4 to A0.