Posters on the walls of an abandoned section of Notting Hill Tube station
I've been sent this amazing like to an article about vintage posters being discovered in a boarded off area of a tube station - this section of Notting Hill Station had been closed for 50 yers.
The Guardian also has a showcase of posters that changed the way that we say modern design - gallery here and story here.
The history of the modern British poster from 1915 to 1970 is nothing less than a potted history of British society, culture, politics and the economy in that period. It is also, of course, a history of art and design as well as advertising.
"The poster can tell us many things about ourselves," says the collector, curator, lecturer and writer Paul Rennie, from whose book, Modern British Posters: Art, Design & Communication, these wonderful images are taken. "It tells us, for instance, that we are essentially a neat and ordered conservative nation.
"The idea that modernism didn't happen in Britain is wrong. It did, but we did not embrace modernity as a headlong rush into the future. We were much more tentative about it and our poster designs reflect that."
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