Poster designer

[TomGino]

Doing a AS in graphic art and for some stupid reason we need to research a poster artist. Anyone know of any famous poster designers that i could use?

Any help appreciated.

[sjthomas11]

Toulouse Lautrec is an obvious one you could do.

[spudqueen]

How about the classic London Underground Posters? Don't know if he actually drew the pictures, but Frank Pick was involved somewhere!

[Xollob]

How about John Gilroy for his legendary Guinness posters?

[jno]

Frank Pick was a manager, not an artist, but he hired top artists like McKnight Kauffer. Alphonse Mucha was famous for posters. Can't see why you think posters stupid; what did you think graphic art was?

[Quizmonkey]

Egon Schiele, David Hockney, even MC Escher too.

[alfiebrady]

Rick Griffin

[gary baldy]

Look up Tom Purvis who did some great Railway posters and also Ashley Havinden who did fantastic advertising posters.

[jno]

Quizmonkey did any of those artists actually design posters? I know lots of their work has subsequently been used on posters, but that's not quite the same thing.

[WaldoMcFroog]

I'd go for Mucha too. Wonderful artist!

[Quizmonkey]

Hi Tom,

Hockney and Schiele definitely did (Hockney did a load of play/opera/dance performance posters which are collected together in one book; and Schiele's posters mainly publicised art exhibitions). I'm sure I can remember some early Escher work being poster design but can't actually confirm this at the moment!

[alfiebrady]

Aubrey Beardsley

[WoWo]

Sorry to highjack the thread but....

Let this be a leason to all the homework monkeys out there on how to ask a home work related question on AB. The person asking the question told us all that it was for a course and also said thank you.

Good luck with the research.

[gary baldy]

Yes i agree Wo Wo.
Ive said before that Abers will go above and beyond if they think they are appreciated as apposed to questions like:

"Post Designers? Give me some"

BTW TomGino - count yourself lucky! We never had such interesting subjects to research when i was at school i can assure you!
Good luck anyway.

[vehelpfulguy]

What surprises me is that he says he is doing graphic art, and then says "for some STUPID reason we have to research a poster artist"

Rather like someone studying music saying "for some stupid reason we have to study Beethoven's music"

[jno]

right you are Quizmonkey - I thought Hockney probably had, didn't think Schiele had, and don't know about Escher.

[Narolines]

Whereabouts in the country are you, Tom? Birmingham Art Gallery currently has a Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition concentrating on his work as aposter artist.

[mike b]

If this guy thinks that the research is stupid, he is obviously gigantically talented and presumably knows it all already...