Category · Print & Poster
Print & Poster
Print & Poster covers traditions where the print itself is the artifact — Bauhaus's primary-color geometry, the Swiss International Style, art deco posters, WPA travel work, Saul Bass title cards, Risograph zine printing, screen-printed concert posters. Each entry is defined by a printing process, a typographic tradition, or a designer's body of work. Vector-only "poster" stock art is excluded — it's a format, not a style.
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1920s Art Deco
Art Deco was the dominant decorative style from roughly 1920 to 1939, born at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratif…
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1960s Psychedelic
Psychedelic poster art is the visual language of San Francisco between 1965 and 1969 — the Fillmore, the Avalon Ballroom, the Family Dog…
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1990s Grunge
Grunge as a visual style is mostly David Carson's design language for Beach Culture (1990–91) and Ray Gun magazine (1992–95), plus the al…
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Art Deco Poster
Art Deco poster design — roughly 1910 to 1940, peaking in Paris between the 1925 Exposition Internationale and the early 1930s — has a vi…
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Art Nouveau (Mucha)
Art Nouveau was a decorative-arts movement that swept Europe and the United States between roughly 1890 and 1910. Within visual art, the…
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Bauhaus
The Bauhaus school operated for fourteen years (1919–1933) in three German cities before the Nazis shut it down — but the visual grammar…
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Linocut Relief Print
Linocut relief print is the look of an image cut into linoleum, inked, and pressed onto paper — a reductive medium where everything you s…
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Memphis Group 1980s
The Memphis Group was a Milan-based design collective founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981. The name comes from the Bob Dylan song "Stuck I…
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Milton Glaser Pop
Milton Glaser Pop is the warm, eclectic, idea-first American graphic illustration that came out of Push Pin Studios from 1954 onward — th…
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Risograph
Risograph is a Japanese stencil-duplication printing technology (Riso Kagaku, since 1986) that was originally designed for cheap school n…
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Saul Bass Title Card
Saul Bass (1920–1996) redefined what film title sequences could be — he made them part of the film, not a list of names to skip — and the…
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Screen-Printed Concert Poster
The American screen-printed concert poster — also called the gig poster — has a continuous lineage from the 1965 Fillmore Auditorium post…
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Swiss International Typographic
The Swiss / International Typographic Style emerged in Zurich and Basel in the late 1940s and dominated corporate and editorial design fr…
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Ukiyo-e Woodblock
Ukiyo-e — "pictures of the floating world" — is the dominant Japanese print tradition from roughly 1660 to 1900. The images were carved i…
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WPA Travel Poster
Between 1936 and 1943 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project produced over 2,000 silkscreened posters to promote nationa…
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