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	London Transport - Classic advertising art

mickfinn

1-23-2008 11:56 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4320885c-8293-4c47-8e92-f4b191a52a2d/42DE6081-32E7-43CE-8FA7-3B66A235F78A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html" href="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rennart.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><FONT size="+3" face="Helvetica">London Transport poster
by Laszlo Moholy Nagy 1937</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rennart.co.uk/img/E95CEA52-BC1B-443C-90D7-8A55DD6AD4B8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">This remarkable poster is one of
three posters designed by Moholy Nagy for</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">London Transport</FONT></B> <B><FONT face="Helvetica">during his brief stay in England between 1935
and 1937.</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">It was commissioned by Frank Pick</FONT></B>
<B><FONT face="Helvetica">at London Transport.</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">Frank Pick was the guiding intelligence
behind the creation of the world's</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">first integrated</FONT></B> <B><FONT face="Helvetica">transport system and gave the system a visual
coherence</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">through his interest in architecture,</FONT></B>
<B><FONT face="Helvetica">industrial design, poster art and typography.</FONT></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">Pick was introduced to Moholy through
Ashley Havinden at the Crawford</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">advertsing agency.</FONT></B> <B><FONT face="Helvetica">Havinden had worked in Germany during the 1920s
where</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">he had become aware of the</FONT></B>
<B><FONT face="Helvetica">pioneering modernism of the Bauhaus.</FONT></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">Nagy counts as one of the
foremost graphic designers and</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">photographers of the 20C.</FONT></B>
<B><FONT face="Helvetica">He was born in Hungary in 1895. In 1920
he moved</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">to Germany and joined the design
avant-garde.</FONT></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rennart.co.uk/moholy.html"><P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">Molholy moved to America in 1937
where he established the New Bauhaus and</FONT></B></p> <P><B><FONT face="Helvetica">the</FONT></B> <B><FONT face="Helvetica">School
of Design in Chicago.</FONT></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42DE6081-32E7-43CE-8FA7-3B66A235F78A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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