notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Two pamphlets for the Ocean Shore Railroad, a short-lived railway from San Francisco south along the Pacific coast, published by the Western Railroader, as posted at Half Moon Bay Memories.

Another poster from Hit the North at Quad Royal:

Although this does go some way towards explaining a small sub-genre of northern and midlands posters, which are designed to celebrate the modernisation of the railways. Because of course it’s fine to mention these cities if you are actually enthusing about industry. The Manchester Piccadilly poster at the top probably fits into this category too (these tend, as a rule, to be post-war).

Manchester’s New Station, Piccadilly - a British Railways poster circa 1960, from a post at Quad Royal, Hit the North, centred on this argument:

“the point remains: should you happen to map the world by railway poster, the industrial heartlands of Britain are pretty much invisible”

1999 Japanese poster for La jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962), via mappeal.

The power is on - so back off, a poster from the East London line’s late 1990s rebuilding at London Transport Museum’s Pick Mix site (thanks, Chris)

Soviet poster, 1931 (text: “We Are Building a Fleet of Airships in the Name of Lenin”) from The Dead Dream of the Dirigible by Megan Garber in The Atlantic.

Richard Rogers Screenprints by Simon Armstrong for the Design Museum.

A poster for Cypher, a somewhat silly but definitely enjoyable techno-thriller type thing from 2002.

(I rewatched this last night while pottering with Photoshop, and there are some nice touches in it. I also decided to create a movieinframes four-frame version of it, which is more about the protagonist’s relationships with women in the film than the other direction I could have gone, focussing on the whizz-bang gadgets. Maybe I’ll do another take later.)

FACT 10+4 posters, Peter Saville, 1979.

VKhUTEMAS poster celebrating the Five-Year Plan, 1920s (via, via, via)

(via neo-constructivist)