mikl-em's combine

via thegameofart & R e d

Uncredited WPA poster for a 1936 production of R.U.R. aka “Rossum’s Universal Robots” a 1920 sci-fi play that coined the word robot into English. via paul.malon & mudwerks

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original.^[1] It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.^[2]

(via debradorka)

Laurel and Hardy in “Double Whoopee” poster, 1929, via vintagemarlene & Doctor Macro

Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 18 of that year. […]

Jean Harlow also makes a brief appearance in this film, as a blonde bombshell who gets partially stripped by Laurel & Hardy.

“After Work Guinness” poster by legendary graphic designer and teacher Tom Eckersley. More on Eckersley here.

Eckersley-Lombers posters were both aesthetic and functional, thereby perfectly fulfilling advertisers’ criteria. Eckersley-Lombers always supplied full size artwork with hand drawn lettering for their poster designs.

(via theshinyboogie)

WPA poster for “Alien Corn by Sidney Howard” at LA’s Mayan Theatre, Federal Theatre Project production in 1938 via mudwerks & paul.malon

“16th Exhibition of Japan Advertising Artists Club” poster by Tadanori Yokoo, 1968. His current work is here. via theshinyboogie

Tadanori Yokoo, born in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan’s most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences.

whataboutbobbed:

Otl Aicher posters for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich

[with apologies to Levy’s Rye, these are our most favorite posters of all time.  the archery one hangs on our living room wall!]

Olympics poster art flashback…

mudwerks:

(via Poster for Sharon (1977, USA) | Wrong Side of the Art)

“Save Our Wild Life” poster circa 1940 for the Department of the Interior / National Park Service illustrated by Dorothy Waugh via mudwerks and via WPA Posters - Vintagraph

frodesignco’s cool, infograficky poster on horror movie trends (in killing) to promote “Cabin In the Woods” written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard

Art Deco Batman…

manieldanning:

Batman (in the style of Cassandre) by Grégoire Guillemin