Category: poster

Adolfo de Carolis

Adolfo de Carolis, “International Exposition of Industries- Turin, Poster, 1911

Adolfo de Carolis was an Italian painter, wood-cut printer, illustrator and photographer. In 1888, after finishing primary school , he was sent to study at the Accademaia di Belle Arti di Bologna from which he graduated in 1892. His first professional work was a collaborative restoration of the Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace.

In 1899, de Carolis participated int eh 3rd exposition held by the Venice Biennale. He received a commission the following year to design a bronze tabernacle for the baptismal font at the Ajaccio Cathedral. After 1902, Adolfo de Carolis concentrated on creating illustrations for artistic and literary publications for books by Carducci, Pascoli and D’Annunzio.

Adolfo de Carolis’s Turin Interanational poster was designed in 1911 to celebrate this world fair which focused on industry and labor. The fair opened on the 29th of April and covered an area of 247 acres. Over four million visitors attended the pavilions of over thirty countries.

 

John Williams: “You Must Remember What You Are”

Photographer Unknown, (Food for the Mind)

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you’re trying to decide what to do.”

― John Williams, Stoner

 

Jean Droit

Jean Droit, 1924 Paris Poster for the Olympic Games

From his early youth, Jean Droit manifested his talents as an artist, primarily in watercolors. His first exhibition of watercolors was at the Galerie du Roy in Brussels in 1912. His posters and illustrations, published by numerous magazines and in luxury books, were universally known and appreciated. Shortly before 1914, Jean Droit designed the outfits for the boards of the Belgian Army.

Upon his return to France after the end of the war, he became  a draftsman at the Manufacture de Sèvres and  resumed his artistic and educational activities. Several of his works are at the Royal Army Museum in Brussels.

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Remo Bramanti

Remo Bramanti, “Titan Industrial Corporation”, Advertising Poster, 1957

This is an original 1957 single-sided lithograph by Remo Bramanti intending to promote the Titan Industrial Corporation, which was then located at 711 Third Avenue in New York City. Today, it continues to thrive in the Big Apple at 555 Madison Avenue with both the Titan Steel Corporation and TSC Logistics, LLC, making up parts of this large industrial giant.

Promotional Posters for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

Promotional Posters for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, Directed by Robert Wiene, Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Friedrich Feher, 1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.

J. C. Leyendecker

J. C. Leyendecker, “US Navy and What It Offers”, 1914-1918, World War I Naval Recruiting Poster

The image on this U.S. Navy recruitment poster for World War I  is based on a painting by J. C. Leyendecker.The same image was again used in 1973 for a Navy recruitment poster during the Vietnam War era, which promised a bonus for former Navy men.   

J. C. Leyendecker was one of the prominent American illustrators of the early twentieth-century. He is best known for his posters, particularly the series for Arrow shirts which featured ‘The Arrow Collar Man’. In his career, Leyendecker created three hundred and twenty two covers for the Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Note: Additional images of Leyendecker’s work plus a more extensive biography can be found at this site in the June 2016 article entitled “Joseph Christian Leyendecker”.