3.13.2009

"I want to ride my bicycle…"



A good friend turned me on to these vintage cycling posters today. I haven't been able to find too much information about the designers, but Brett Horton, who started The Horton Collection collecting cycling posters and memorabilia, has an excellent collection and is a great resource for imagery. And you can buy reprints of the posters through Velosport.
If anyone knows more about the designers, please pass it along, until then, I'm just going to relish in these mid-century beauties and think about where I'd like to hang one in my home. There are hundreds in the Horton Collection to peruse, but I selected the first two for their sophisticated color palettes, the second two for their snappy typography and the last two for their savvy use of circles—which can be a hard shape to work with, but definitely unavoidable when the subject is cycling.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know where I am hanging my poster at 252A...thanks for the help. T