Travel Posters.

Travel posters are designed to invite you to a new land and for you to explore exciting new things.
Here are a selection of some travel posters from different decades.

One of illustrator David Klein’s advertisements during the 1950s for TWA.
Notice the simple shapes, colours and the use of a sans-serif typeface.

Pan Am travel posters designed in 1971 by Chermayeff & Geismar. What’s remarkable about these posters — other than the minimal design and the use of Helvetica — is the power of the photography. The simple, sometimes monocromatic, images make a clear statement about the location and inspire the viewer.

Railway Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to the Yorkshire Dales. The poster shows a view of a hamlet nestled in a landscape of green pastures and rolling hills. Four lines of verse by the poet A.E. Housman (1859-1936) emphasise the pastoral character of the area. The pictureesque scenery is a warm one and invites tourists.

English Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to Yorkshire. The poster shows a view of Knaresborough, with the river and castle and a train crossing a viaduct. Notice how the beautifully painted image takes up most of the page making it the focus and the first thing people see on the poster. Their eyes then work their way down to the information/destination.