Poster Design

Synopsis

Posters taken from a collection owned by Manchester Metropolitan University. The text discusses the way art can be exploited in advertising, taking as examples advertising posters of the inter-war period commissioned by such companies as Shell-Mex, Austin Reed and the Empire Marketing Board. It tells how companies used artists’ work in their advertising, with the best known example in this study the surrealist Paul Nash, and offers an analysis of the meaning produced by these adverts.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Multimedia; 13 slides.

Year of production

1991

Availability

Sale; 2005 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Notes

This is a shorter version of ‘Poster art of the 1920s and 1930s’.

Documentation

Accompanying 7-page text with introduction, commentary, bibliography and note on poster archives in Britain.

Subjects

Art

Keywords

advertising; commercial art; posters

Distributor

Name

Manchester Metropolitan University, Faculty of Art and Design

Email

c.hilton@mmu.ac.uk or j.davis@mmu.ac.uk

Web

http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/visualresources/slidesets/ External site opens in new window

Phone

0161 247 1930

Fax

0161 247 6897

Address

The Visual Resources Curator
Righton Building
Cavendish Street
Manchester
M15 6BG