Golden Age Travel Poster
旅行ポスターの黄金期 / 1890s–1930s / Style / Advertising Posters
The lithographed tourism posters railways and shipping lines competed with: idealized destination landscapes, ornamental lettering and proud route names inventing travel itself as an image of desire.
Idealized landscapes / Flat lithographic color / Ornamental lettering / Railway and line insignia
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the PLM and French railway posters / London Underground's patronage / Cassandre's geometrization