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The official poster for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, designed by American graphic designer Lance Wyman, whose concentric-line logotype became one of the most influential visual identities in Olympic history.

Your Country Needs YOU is a British Army recruitment image created by illustrator Alfred Leete in 1914. The artwork features a stern Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, staring directly at the viewer while pointing his finger forward. It was initially published as the front cover...

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is a 1919 propaganda poster created by Russian artist El Lissitzky. The lithograph is an abstract geometric composition depicting a large red triangle piercing into a white circle, set against a black background with bold, Cyrillic text. Created during the Russian...

Hope is a political poster created by American contemporary street artist Shepard Fairey during the 2008 United States presidential election. The stylized stencil portrait depicts then-candidate Barack Obama rendered in a saturated palette of red, white, and blue, enclosed below the capitalized word...

We Can Do It! is an American wartime poster created by graphic artist J. Howard Miller in 1943 for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. The image depicts a female factory worker wearing a red polka-dot bandana and flexing her right bicep, accompanied by a bold yellow speech bubble. I...

I Want YOU for U.S. Army is an American military recruitment poster created by illustrator James Montgomery Flagg in 1917. The image features a stern, top-hatted personification of the United States known as Uncle Sam, drawn with his index finger pointing directly at the viewer. Flagg initially crea...

Le Chat Noir is an 1896 color lithograph poster by Swiss-born French Art Nouveau artist Théophile Steinlen. The image was created to advertise the Le Chat Noir cabaret, a prominent bohemian entertainment venue located in the Montmartre district of Paris. Featuring a stark, black arching cat surround...

Gismonda is an 1894 lithographic poster by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, created to advertise a stage production starring the celebrated French actress Sarah Bernhardt at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. The poster features a near-life-sized depiction of Bernhardt in an elaborate, heavily patt...

This item is an original Japanese theatrical poster for the 1988 animated cyberpunk film Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The design features the protagonist Shōtarō Kaneda walking toward his red motorcycle with his back to the viewer, set against the backdrop of a dystopian Neo-Tokyo. Based on O...

The 1958 U.S. poster for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, designed by Saul Bass with illustrator John Whitney, featuring a spiraling figure that is widely regarded as one of the greatest film posters ever created.

This object is the original 1960 U.S. theatrical release poster for the psychological horror thriller Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The artwork was designed by graphic designer Saul Bass, who utilized stark typography and fragmented photographic imagery to evoke the film's themes of voyeuris...

The 1993 U.S. one-sheet for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, featuring the bold T-rex skeleton logo designed by Chip Kidd that originated on Michael Crichton's novel and was adopted wholesale for the film.

This is the original 1982 U.S. theatrical one-sheet poster for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and distributed by Universal Pictures. The artwork was painted by illustrator John Alvin and depicts the human boy Elliott and the alien E.T. touching their...

The 1968 U.S. theatrical one-sheet for 2001: A Space Odyssey served as the primary marketing material for the science fiction epic directed by Stanley Kubrick. The poster features artwork by renowned space artist Robert McCall, depicting the film's rotating space station, an Orion III spaceplane, an...

This object is the original U.S. theatrical one-sheet poster for Casablanca, a romantic drama directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Bros. in 1942. The poster prominently features illustrations of its stars, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, positioned around a stylized image of Rick's...

This item is the original 1927 German theatrical release poster for the silent science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang. The artwork was illustrated by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm and depicts the film's robotic character Maria against the backdrop of a futuristic, geometric cityscape. Printe...

The 1994 U.S. theatrical one-sheet poster for Pulp Fiction was used to market the independent crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino and distributed by Miramax. The design features a stylized illustration of actress Uma Thurman in character as Mia Wallace, lying on a bed with a cigarette and an op...

This is the original 1972 U.S. theatrical release poster for the crime film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The design features a black-and-white portrait of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, overlaid with the puppet strings logo and the film's ti...

This object is the original 1979 U.S. theatrical one-sheet poster for the science fiction horror film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott and released by 20th Century Fox. Designed by Philip Gips and Steve Frankfurt, the poster artwork features a mysterious, cracked alien egg emitting a sinister green g...

The 1975 U.S. theatrical one-sheet for Jaws served as the primary promotional material for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel, distributed by Universal Pictures. The poster features a stark, realistic illustration by artist Roger Kastel depicting a massive great white shark asce...

This object is the original 1977 U.S. theatrical one-sheet, commonly known as Style A, for the science fiction film Star Wars, written and directed by George Lucas. The artwork was painted by Tom Jung and depicts Luke Skywalker holding his lightsaber above his head, Princess Leia kneeling beside him...

Yusaku Kamekura is a Japanese graphic designer renowned for his distinctive, often surreal and dreamlike imagery, frequently incorporating elements of nature, mythology, and pop culture into his work across diverse media like posters and book covers.

Ikko Tanaka (1937-2003) was a highly influential Japanese graphic designer known for his minimalist aesthetic and pioneering work with Futura typeface, significantly shaping modern Japanese typography and visual communication design.

Armin Hofmann was a highly influential Swiss graphic designer and educator known for his reductive approach to typography and emphasis on fundamental design principles, particularly evident in his systematic explorations of letterform construction.

Josef Müller-Brockmann was a highly influential Swiss graphic designer and typographer best known for his systematic grid-based posters promoting public health initiatives and urban planning concepts throughout Europe from the 1960s onward.

Saul Bass was a highly influential American graphic designer best known for his iconic and minimalist title sequences for films like “Vertigo” and “Anatomy of a Murder,” significantly shaping the visual language of Hollywood cinema during the mid-20th century.

The original theatrical release poster for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' features a painted illustration by American artist Richard Amsel. It depicts the film's protagonist, Indiana Jones, cracking his bullwhip with the iconic Paramount mountain logo and a flaming artifact in the background. The artwork...

The original theatrical poster for Stanley Kubrick's 1971 dystopian film 'A Clockwork Orange' prominently features a stylized illustration of actor Malcolm McDowell in character as Alex DeLarge. The design shows Alex peering out from behind a triangular opening while holding a dagger, wearing his si...

The 1982 U.S. one-sheet for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, featuring John Alvin's moody neon-drenched cityscape artwork that has been widely praised as a landmark of science-fiction poster design.