My next idea was to look at Travel Posters, mostly train based, about pre 60’s era, very bold colours and typefaces, and simple. My initial research lead me to: AM Cassandre, Edward Kauffer, and Tom Purvis.
AM Cassandre designed a lot of L.N.E.R posters, and a few L.M.S posters, while Edward Kauffer created the London Tube Logo, and used a lot of circular references on posters and the logo, to symbolise the clock, meaning train running time and accessibility, as well as frequent service. Whilst researching Edward, I stumbled upon Harry Beck, who designed the London Underground map. Tom Purvis was also a name that cropped up in a book entitled “Retro Graphics” and was written by Jonathan Raimes, and Lakshmi Bhaskaran. Tom Purvis also designed a lot of posters for L.N.E.R.
What I intend to do is create a train travelling poster advertising a fiction train company “Gaynes Bridge Locomotion Services”. What will be on this poster is a fictionally constructed bridge over water, with countryside houses, and a small steam train with approximately four wagons mid-way over the bridge. I will also furtherly research the artists behind these works, and look at their processes and histories.
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