421 Conceptual Images

Conceptual illustration, was a significant design approach in Poland, the US, Germany, and Cuba in the second half of the 20th century. Conceptual images dealt with integration of word and image, and conveyed not merely narrative information but ideas and concepts. During this period, graphic artists created more personal images, and pioneered individual styles and techniques, blurring the boundaries between fine arts and public visual communication. (Meggs 21)

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Jean Thobaben

Contemporary Art Painting

Surrealismo / Surrealism

a hand holding several knives in front of a red background with the words hold hands

Social Awareness Posters

Call for Entries - Graphis Design & Advertising Awards

Graphis / Public Viewing | Social/Political Posters

a movie poster for the film maskarada with an image of a man's face

Movie Poster of the Day

Andrzej Pagowski, MASQUERADE (Janusz Kijowski 1987), 1987

an advertisement for the atlantic tire company featuring an elephant with tusks and tires

Poster Grafico

Vintage Italian Posters

Conceptual Image

Vintage Advertising Art

Italian Posters

Postal Vintage

Vintage Advertising Posters

Crazy Man

Poster Ads

Pirelli advertising

Armando Testa (1917-92), "Atlante Pirelli" poster, 1955 - an Italian abstract painter turned graphic designer who used metaphysical combinations to convey elemental truths about his subjects. In his wide-reaching ads for Pirelli tires, he borrowed the vocabulary of surrealism by combining the image of a tire with immediately recognizable symbols.

a poster with an image of a hand holding a blue and red ball in it's palm

19.2. Armando Testa

Armando Testa, rubber and plastic exhibition poster, 1972. In his posters and advertisements, the image is the primary means of communication, and he reduces the verbal content to a few words or even just the product name.

an advertisement for po walce - praca with a hammer and grain on it

Late Modernism

Ww2 Propaganda Posters

The largest collection of Polish posters

Trepkowski Tadeusz(1914-56), Po walce praca year of poster: 1945 - the first Polish poster artist to emerge after World War II, he expressed the tragic memories and aspirations for the future that were deeply fixed in his country’s national psyche.

an image of a poster with the words nie on it's back side

Philip Johnson Architecture

Original contemporary/vintage Polish posters - Contemporary Posters

Tadeusz Trepkowski 1914-56) , Nie! (No!) antiwar poster, 1952. His approach involved reducing imagery and words until content was distilled to its simplest statement. In his famous 1953 antiwar poster (Fig. 21 - 3), Trepkowski used a few simple shapes to symbolize a devastated city, superimposed on a silhouette of a falling bomb.

a poster with an image of two people playing soccer on the same team as one another

Henry K, Tomaszewski, poster for the Olympic Henryk Tomaszewski, poster for the Olympic Games in London, 1948.

an art piece with the word crk written in different colors and shapes on it

Henryk Tomaszewski (1914-2005), a Polish poster innovator who led the trend toward developing an aesthetically pleasing approach, escaping from the somber world of tragedy and remembrance into a bright, decorative world of color and shape (Fig. 21 - 4) and (Fig. 21 - 5). In an almost casual collage approach, designs were created from torn and cut pieces of colored paper, then printed by the silkscreen process.

a poster with an image of a woman's face and flowers on the front

Love Illustration

Retro Illustration

Modern Graphic Design

Vintage Poster

Graphic Design Posters

Vintage Graphics

Jerzy Flisak (b.1930), cinema poster for Rzeczpospolita Babska, undated. After Trepkowski’s early death, Henryk Tomaszewski, a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, became the spiritual head of Polish graphic design. His posters were composed of bits of torn and cut paper, then printed by the silkscreen process. Typical of this casual collage approach is the film poster for Rzeczpospolita Babska (Women’s Republic) by Jerzy Flisak seen here.