Sunday 28 September 2014

Vintage Travel Posters - part 5


Travel posters are an ever-popular aspect of graphic design. I thought I would feature a broad spectrum of posters from the first half of the C20th, the golden age of the travel poster probably being associated with the 1920s and 1930s with posters by artists like Roger Broders, featuring sunny Mediterranean scenes.

This is part 5 of an 8 - part post on vintage travel posters. For earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also.




1952c To USA. United States Lines 
poster by Amengol

1954 Portugal 
poster by Nuno Costa

1955 Southern California. United Air Lines 
poster by Stan Galli

1955c San Francisco. United Airlines 
poster by Stan Galli

1956 Paignton. British Rail 
poster by R. M. Lander

1956 Paignton. British Rail 
poster by R. M. Lander

1956c Australia 
poster by Eileen Rosemary Mayo

1957 Mexico. Air France 
poster by Jean Colin

1957 San Francisco. TWA Airlines

1957 Swissair 
poster by Hugo Welti

1957c Australia 
poster by Eileen Rosematy Mayo

1958 Africa. Air France 
poster by Even

1958 Air France 
poster by Jean Carlu

1958 France. Air France 
poster by Jean Carlu

1958 Visit Brittany 
poster by Nathan

1959 Malév. Hungarian Airlines 
poster by Ágas

1959 Velencei-Tó, Hungary

1960 Chicago. TWA Airlines

David Klein
David Klein (1918 - 2005) was born in El Paso, Texas in 1918, bit moved to California where he attended the Art Centre School in Los Angeles. During the 1930s he was a prominent member of the California Watercolour Society.
During World War 2, Klein served in The US Army and produced illustrations for the United States Armed Forces. In 1953 the United States Air Force created the Air Force Art Collection featuring many of Klein's works.

By the mid 1950s Klein had established a reputation as one of America's pre-eminent commercial illustrators. Between 1955 and 1965 Klein designed numerous award-winning travel posters, emblematic of the jet age. The bulk of this work was for TWA.



1960c Egypt. TWA 
poster by David Klein

1960c Florida. TWA 
poster by David Klein

1965c Egypt. TWA 
poster by David Klein

1965c Las Vegas. TWA 
poster by David Klein

1965c Rome. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Note: I do not have dates for the remainder of these David Klein posters.


Africa. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Hollywood. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Hong Kong. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Israel. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Israel. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Los Angeles. TWA 
poster by David Klein

New York. TWA 
poster bt David Klein

New York. TWA 
poster bt David Klein

New York. TWA 
poster bt David Klein

Paris. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Rome. TWA 
poster by David Klein

San Francisco. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Servicemen Fly TWA. 
Poster by David Klein

Servicemen. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Spain. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Spain. TWA 
poster by David Klein

Switzerland. TWA 
poster by David Klein

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1960c B.O.A.C.

1960c Delhi. Aeroflot

1960c Djakarta. Aeroflot.

1960c Hawaii. United Air Lines 
poster by Stan Galli

1960c Los Angeles. United Air Lines 
poster by Stan Galli

1960c New York. United Air Lines 
poster by Stan Galli

1961 Agárd Camping, Hungary

1961 IBUSZ, Hugary 
poster by Szilvássy

1961 Sommerhotel Ungarn 
poster by Szilas

1962 Cairo. Middle East Airlines 
poster by Jacques Auriac

1962 Damascus. Middle East Airlines 
poster by Jacques Auriac

1962-63 Air-India 
poster by K. K. Save

1963-64 Chile. Air France 
poster by Nathan Garamond

1965 IBUSZ Self Drive 
poster by Szilas Gy

1965 Interflug 
poster by Swierzy

1966 Visit Slovakia. Czechoslovakia

1967 Japan. Air France 
poster by Georges Mathieu