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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Idealized landscapes
- Flat lithographic color
- Ornamental lettering
- Railway and line insignia
Best used for
- Destination and hotel promotion where the place itself is shown as longing
- New route announcements carrying pride in the line and the promise of arrival
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- The place name set large as one word, ornament kept to the headline
- Composition
- A low horizon and wide sky, line and company names along the bottom
- Material
- Flat lithographic color where shadows are shifts of hue, not gradients
- Caution
- Dropping in a literal photograph kills the idealization and leaves an enlarged postcard wearing an old style.
- Further study
- the PLM and French railway posters / London Underground's patronage / Cassandre's geometrization
Related entries
- Art Deco (アール・デコ)Shared effects: Luxury / Exhilaration.Compare Golden Age Travel Poster and Art Deco
- Circus Poster (サーカスポスター)Same Advertising Posters lineage.Compare Golden Age Travel Poster and Circus Poster
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