Graphic Design Herstoryさんのイラストまとめ

Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), poster for agriculture exhibition, São Paulo, 1951. The Italian architect and designer collaborated with Giò Ponti and with various magazines before moving to Brazil in 1947, and went on to design iconic buildings, products, furniture, jewelry and more.

Maggie Salcedo, advertising poster, 1925. Salcedo (1890-1959) was a French painter, illustrator and decorator. A prolific illustrator of children’s books, she also worked for fashion magazines and created posters for the Grands Magasins du Louvre, the Red Cross and other clients.

Eva Feiglová (1927-2010), travel posters. This German born Czech artist began creating movie posters soon after the end of World War II. In the late ‘50s she painted a series of travel posters, and also worked as a children’s book illustrator. Information about her is very scarce

Anne Hickmott, London Underground poster, 1959. Hickmott (b. 1935) is a graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, painter and printmaker. She studied at the Royal College of Art and has designed book covers and worked for various British transportation companies and the BBC.

C&RE, London Transport poster, 1936. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were a couple of graphic artists and illustrators who married in 1931 and produced numerous posters, signed with their initials, for London Transport, the General Post Office, Shell, and the Empire Marketing Board.

Vera Willoughby (1870-1939), London Transport poster, 1928. The Hungarian born artist studied at London’s Slade School of Art and created covers and illustrations for many books, including her own A Vision of Greece. She designed posters for London Transport from 1928 to 1935.

Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991) had a successful career as a painter, stage and costume designer for the theatre, illustrator, muralist and commercial artist. In the 1930s she painted posters for several British railway companies, including this historically inspired series for LNER.

Herry Perry (1897-1962), poster for London Transport, 1935. Perry studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and designed over 50 London Transport and Underground posters from 1927 to 1938. She was also active as a book illustrator, cartographer, muralist and sign painter.

In 1933, after the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany, Auerbach and Stern, who were Jewish, decided to close their studio and leave the country. At first, Grete Stern went to England, while Ellen Auerbach moved to Palestine.

Petrov-Vodkin had a strong influence on Evenbach, who wrote “I did not illustrate books: I took life and gave it back in colors”. She survived the siege of Leningrad and evacuated to Altai. During the post-war years she illustrated books and taught in the Faculty of Graphic Art.