Even though my project isn't exactly on the old railway posters from the 1930s and 40s any more they still catch my eye when I come across any that I haven't seen before. There's a wide section of the posters to view at the London Transport Museum which I'm hopefully going to see next month but until then I've already been able to have a sneak peak when the Telegraph had an article on posters advertising London and the Underground.
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| Underground for Business or Pleasure; by FE Witney, 1913 |
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden cares for one of the world's finest poster archives and includes images that are now over 100years old. Many of the designs featured were inspired by the creation of the modern graphic poster, which dates from the 1890s and revolutionised the advertising industry. The posters featured in this gallery span decades of the museum's collection and replicas are available to purchase at the museum or on-line. Until March 18th, the museum is also running the display Poster Parade - Painting by numbers which features a selection of statistics relating to the London Underground Tube network.
The first graphic posters were commissioned by Frank Pick, who was responsible for London Underground's publicity in 1908. Then as now, the Underground was primarily used by commuters but the works he authorised sought to promote the benefits of the transport network and provide London Underground with a more coherent corporate identity.
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