Italy was slow to adopt the poster form of advertising and when Les Maîtres de l’Affiche publication was complete in 1900 there were on...

Today’s image comes from 1930s Germany where the business of promoting Portland Cement was obviously taken very seriously. It’s a highly com...

If it were possible to compile an Atlas of Human Happiness there is no doubt in my mind that its very epicentre would be at the soda counter...

I’ve always been intrigued by the illustrations of Gladys Peto. The combination of a precision line wrapped around flattened areas of colou...

This is a fan letter to an artist whose books are an unadulterated pleasure to the eye. I’m not going to survey his entire output but focus...

As worn by Men of Production since 1922. One of those points where the worlds of Capitalism and Communism intersect with a celebration of t...

The lugubrious and macabre talents of Charles Addams would not seem to be ideally suited to the demands of advertising illustration. Few pr...

Three more examples of advertising art to admire from one of the unsung heroes of American illustration. The Schlitz ad is a special favouri...

To an interested observer like myself, with absolutely no links with the advertising industry, Barry is one of the unsung heroes of commerci...