Another Week of Travelling… Part 1
We received such a positive reaction to our week of vintage travel poster recreations last week, that we decided to publish another collection of recreations this week. This week’s recreations all...
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Keeping with a 1930s theme today-though Blout s a very flexible design and is certainly not limited to 30s themed work-we head off to the Chicago World’s Fair, and the strikingly coloured poster below…...
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Anyone care to travel to the French Riviera in true style and luxury? This latest piece of typography uses the Blout typeface to remind us that the Blue Train is really the way all the very best...
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We continue our journey by train today. This time we’re travelling through Scotland in the glorious summer of 1937 aboard the wonderful streamlined steam-hauled express, the Coronation Scot. Filed...
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Somehow, air travel seemed far more stylish and yes- pleasant when it took place at a sedate speed on dignified flying boats. Whatever happened to this civilised age…where did we become so speed...
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Here’s a challenge…. Blout takes us to the International Advertising Exhibition at White City today, What an interesting collection of travelling companions. A casual glance reveals the Michelin...
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In the 1920s most forms of movement used steam, and on the final one of our Blout specimen posters we see a splendid Ocean Liner and a rather elegant steam train. Let’s travel into the distance in the...
View ArticleTypography Makes That Vital Difference…
We were recently trying to demonstrate to an acquaintance of ours (a bit of a philistine in some ways, but with other redeeming features) just how much difference carefully chosen typefaces and...
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