PCB London Transport Posters - Hardcover

London Transport Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764968661 ISBN 13: 9780764968662

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications, 2014

Synopsis

The world’s first subterranean railway, the London Underground opened in 1863 and now provides three million rides daily. In 1908, Underground executive Frank Pick began seeking out the country’s best artists and designers to produce advertising posters for the expanding transit system. Color printing developments in the last decades of the nineteenth century transformed poster art, and Pick recognized the potential of this graphic medium. The Underground became an important patron of the arts and an acknowledged leader in the field of poster publicity.
For a century, copies of every poster produced for the Underground and its affiliates were kept, and when the collection was transferred to London Transport Museum in the 1980s, it contained more than five thousand printed posters and almost one thousand original artworks. Steadily growing since then, the collection offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of a century of British graphic design. This book of postcards reproduces thirty Underground posters advertising travel in and around London.
Pomegranate’s books of postcards contain up to thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764968661
• ISBN 13: 9780764968662
• Binding: Card Book
• Number of pages: 30
• Editor: Pomegranate Communications Inc.