Absolutely love these posters. They were found in the Notting Hill Gate station. I’ll quote directly from the flickr site.

Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 – 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway.

We will be leaving these intact – and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible – which is why they’ve probably survived 50 odd years!
The photos were taken officially – please do credit London Underground in any links.

You can see all the photographs of the posters here.

(Found via Creative Review on twitter.)

I saw yesterday on the BBC web site that a collection of 150 propaganda posters are up for auction. They were taken to the auctioneers by a relative of a worker who saved them from being thrown out by a print firm.

Auctioneer Roy Butler said  "They are all in mint condition and are a very rare find. I expect there will be a lot of interest from museums all around the country.

"I should think some of these posters may not have even been seen before so they are very special."

He also said he expected each lot of about 10 posters to sell for up to £250.

I know that these are not original paintings, but for something so historic that doesn’t sound like very much money to me, particularly when you see some thoroughly rubbish artwork for sale as posters. It will be interesting to see how much they go for in the end.

What do you think of these posters, worth more than £250 for 10?

I’m not much of sci-fi fan but I love the book and film of I, Robot. In a little homage to both I recently designed a poster of my interpretation. It started life as a little sketch that was much more complicated than what you can see below, but I simplified it, a lot.

To tie in with the release of the animated movie “Up”, Pixar have released a number of beautiful retro style posters by various designers and artists. They are truly a feast for the eyes, and I feel a retro personal project coming on. There just aren’t enough hours in the day at the moment. Or at least enough hours that I can stay awake for. In the meantime I’ll add these to the inspiration pile.

Posters by Eric Tan

Posters by Craig Foster.

Poster by Erik Evans

Posters by Paul Conrad.

You can buy the limited edition prints here for $145 each.

Have you seen other retro posters that you’ve really liked, please share the links I’d love to see them too.

These are some posters I designed under the massively loose title of “Physics”. I did a degree in Applied Science – Physics and I.T. I went on to study design later, but when I was doing Physics I really struggled as I’m fairly useless at maths. However I did like the concepts and the diagrams – I always had nice diagrams in my notes, even if I didn’t have a clue what they meant!

These posters were inspired by a dip into one of my old physics books I found at my parents house on top of the wardrobe. The diagrams in the book were mostly line art, but I wanted to take them and make something retro, with a focus on colours, texture (there’s a couple of scanned jumpers in there), shapes and typography. They’re A3 sized.

I have a lot of posters that I’ve designed and am looking back over and I’m going to start putting them out for sale throught this website. Not really sure what service to use for getting them printed, what do you guys use? Does anyone use services like Zazzle and Imagekind for printing and delivering? I’d love to hear how you’ve sold prints and posters through your websites.

I stumbled upon a beautiful collection of posters which were illustrated in the 1920′s and thought you might be interested for inspiration purposes. I love design and illustration from this era and the craftsmanship is lovely. The images and text below are from the Chicago L.org website, where you can find lots more examples.

Designed by Rocco D. Navigato. Navigato presents Wacker Drive in a similar manner as his earlier “Boul Mich” poster.

Designed by Ervine Metzl, this poster, designed in 1923, depicts the Grosse Point Lighthouse in northern Evanston, a landmark in the north Chicago suburb.

Designed by Arthur A. Johnson, “Avoid Street Congestion” was the only poster that actually depicted the “L” itself. The posters made in this program for the elevated, North Shore Line, and South Shore Line rarely showed the trains of the carriers, except on a few posters. The version of the poster shown here is a reprint done for the Loop Centennial and Chicago Transit Authority by Poster Plus. The original, of course, did not mention the CTA®; The bottom originally read “Rapid Transit Lines, Fast…Reliable”.

What do you think? Is this an era of design that you find appealing?