A travel poster from a present day that wasn’t, using “Birmingham New Street” as a typeface…
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
How Things Might Have Been….
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Airship, Birmingham New Street, poster, steampunk, travel, typography on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Brighton Belle
Posted in Miscellany, New Font Announcements, tagged Brighton Belle, England, Merrivale, Pullman, train, travel, typeface on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a couple of posters designed in memory of the sadly missed Brighton Belle train service, designed to display our newly released Merrivale family. Why isn’t train travel like this any more? A freshly grilled kipper for breakfast, a pot o tea and good bitter marmalade, all with waiter service…
A Week of Travel – Day 7
Posted in Miscellany, tagged 1960s, fjord, poster, posters, travel, vintage on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The last day of our week of travel, We thought we’d have a cool change today, so we’re travelling with Royal Norsk Lines to see the Fjords. Today’s poster has a distinct 1960s feel. This design uses Paragon Regular and Paragon Small Capitals Condensed.
A Week of Travel – Day 6
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Amalfi Coast, Italy, poster, posters, travel, vintage on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another visit to Italy today, and a distinct 1950s feel for today’s poster. Here we are invited to consider the merits of the Amalfi coast as a holiday destination. This design showcases our forthcoming ‘Sophie J’ family in its regular and bold forms. We expect to release this in the next week or so.
A Week of Travel – Day 5
Posted in Miscellany, tagged cruise, ocean liner, poster, ship, travel on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We thought we’d go a little more modern with the fifth day of our travel poster series-hence we have a modern(ish) ship, and a ladscape formatted poster. Magdelene Sans tells us about the delights of travel on the Duchess of Cambridge on her UK to Australia run. the pity of it is, in real life you can’t travel from the UK to Australia in this eminently civilised fashion any more. One has to resort instead to the airborne cigar tube. It may be quicker, but…
A Week of Travel – Day 4
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Climate change, Global warming, poster, posters, travel, vintage on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We thought we’d introduce a little irony into today’s travel poster. Here’s a nice illustration of the joys of an English summer’s day-or at least an English summer’s day as we remember them, perhaps things have changed with global warming. Anyway – Leibix offers us an antidote to all that gloom in the form of Australian sunshine. Somehow, this causal fun look seems almost timeless.
A Week of Travel – Day 3
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Filey, poster, posters, Seaside resort, swimsuit, travel, vintage on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve always liked the reckless optimism of a certain type of English seaside resort advertising. Here, Metropole and Metropole Engraved encourage us to view Filey – a northern seaside ‘resort’ – as the Riviera of the North. So, it’s off to Filey on the train, but we recommend packing a few woolens to wear over the swimsuit!
A Week of Travel – Day 2
Posted in Miscellany, tagged 1930s, liner, poster, posters, transatlantic, travel, vintage on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the second day of our week of travel hypotheticals. Today, Oakland regular is used to invite us to cross the Atlantic on the Blue Star’s Lines Blue Riband holding liner service. There’s a definite ‘Streamline-era’ feel to this design and to the Oakland typeface. Jazz era New York (or Southampton as the case may be) here we come!
