Words on a wall are a different craft from pictures on a wall. Type has to be legible at a distance, it has to hold together as a composition, and it has to say something worth reading more than once. Done well, a typographic print is the most versatile piece of wall art there is; […]
Abstract art has one advantage over every other kind of wall art: it does not need to be recognised. A room does not have to be about music, film, or sport to carry it. The only questions are colour, scale, and how the piece behaves against the wall behind it. Working out what the wall […]
Travel posters from the first half of the last century were made to sell tickets, and the result was a form of art that had to be simple, persuasive, and readable from a moving train. Nearly a century later those constraints are exactly why the images still work on a wall: no clutter, no ambiguity, […]
1970s Concert Posters and Wall Art Collection
The concert poster of the nineteen seventies is a product of a specific set of limitations: cheap offset printing, a small budget, a promoter who needed something on a wall by Friday, and a designer willing to experiment. Those limitations produced some of the most inventive graphic work in music history. What the era got […]