The Poster Journal
The stories behind the artists on our posters, from Mucha and Klimt to Hokusai and Klee. The history of poster design, and ideas for decorating with vintage prints. Plus how we make our prints, and news from our shops in Barcelona and Lisbon.
What Makes Henri-Edmond Cross Art Distinctive
A painter leaves Paris for the Mediterranean and writes to his mother that he has just discovered happiness. The six works gathered here hold the stories of what that happiness...
What Makes Henri-Edmond Cross Art Distinctive
A painter leaves Paris for the Mediterranean and writes to his mother that he has just discovered happiness. The six works gathered here hold the stories of what that happiness...
Who Was Toni Frissell
Frida Kahlo beside an agave for Vogue in 1937, and a woman in a gown floating in a Florida spring. Behind each photograph is the story of where it was...
Who Was Toni Frissell
Frida Kahlo beside an agave for Vogue in 1937, and a woman in a gown floating in a Florida spring. Behind each photograph is the story of where it was...
Lauron William de Laurence and Esoteric Art
The deck that gave tarot its best-known faces was drawn in 1909 by a woman whose name most people never learned. This is how the pictures crossed to Chicago, and...
Lauron William de Laurence and Esoteric Art
The deck that gave tarot its best-known faces was drawn in 1909 by a woman whose name most people never learned. This is how the pictures crossed to Chicago, and...
How to Read Wassily Kandinsky's Art
He paid half the cost of a book of poems and woodcuts, and material for an album of his work reached Amsterdam by secret routes. Each of these six works...
How to Read Wassily Kandinsky's Art
He paid half the cost of a book of poems and woodcuts, and material for an album of his work reached Amsterdam by secret routes. Each of these six works...
Hilma af Klint Art and Its Meaning
A Swedish painter worked for years on paintings she believed would be understood only after her death. When they finally reached museum walls, they changed the story of abstract art.
Hilma af Klint Art and Its Meaning
A Swedish painter worked for years on paintings she believed would be understood only after her death. When they finally reached museum walls, they changed the story of abstract art.
Understanding Katsushika Hokusai's Art
The wave you know is only the beginning. Behind seven of Hokusai's prints lie an imported blue that changed Japanese printing, a river nobody was allowed to bridge, and a...
Understanding Katsushika Hokusai's Art
The wave you know is only the beginning. Behind seven of Hokusai's prints lie an imported blue that changed Japanese printing, a river nobody was allowed to bridge, and a...
What Inspired Karl Blossfeldt's Art
Seven classroom studies of leaves, ferns, a calyx, a flower head and milkweed buds became a book that made a sixty-three-year-old teacher world-famous. Behind the prints are a dismissed dragonfly...
What Inspired Karl Blossfeldt's Art
Seven classroom studies of leaves, ferns, a calyx, a flower head and milkweed buds became a book that made a sixty-three-year-old teacher world-famous. Behind the prints are a dismissed dragonfly...
A Guide to Henri Matisse Artworks
These are images you have probably seen before, and each one changed as it was made. A new model arrived in the Nice studio in 1935, and the painting of...
A Guide to Henri Matisse Artworks
These are images you have probably seen before, and each one changed as it was made. A new model arrived in the Nice studio in 1935, and the painting of...
Visit Our Poster Stores in Barcelona and Lisbon
We've put our shops in places with a past, on streets worth a slow walk. A visit is the best way to see the posters, feel the paper, and find...
Visit Our Poster Stores in Barcelona and Lisbon
We've put our shops in places with a past, on streets worth a slow walk. A visit is the best way to see the posters, feel the paper, and find...
What Gustav Klimt Artworks Mean
You know the gold. What you may not know is who Klimt's most loved pictures were made for, and what happened to them once they left his studio.
What Gustav Klimt Artworks Mean
You know the gold. What you may not know is who Klimt's most loved pictures were made for, and what happened to them once they left his studio.
Alphonse Mucha Artworks Explained
On Christmas Eve 1894, a call from Bernhardt's theatre to a Paris print shop gave Mucha his first poster for her. The stories behind these familiar images are just as...
Alphonse Mucha Artworks Explained
On Christmas Eve 1894, a call from Bernhardt's theatre to a Paris print shop gave Mucha his first poster for her. The stories behind these familiar images are just as...
The Stories Behind Egon Schiele Artworks
Four early drawings and one lecture poster, each with a real person behind it. Meet Gerti, the younger sister who posed for two of them, and Moa, the dancer whose...
The Stories Behind Egon Schiele Artworks
Four early drawings and one lecture poster, each with a real person behind it. Meet Gerti, the younger sister who posed for two of them, and Moa, the dancer whose...
The Stories Behind Julius Klinger Artworks
Five advertisements, five very different clients: a humour paper, a Berlin zoo, a theatre show and cigarette papers sold across Vienna.
The Stories Behind Julius Klinger Artworks
Five advertisements, five very different clients: a humour paper, a Berlin zoo, a theatre show and cigarette papers sold across Vienna.
The Stories Behind Seven Paul Klee Artworks
A journey through Tunisia in April 1914 changed the way one artist saw colour. Seven pictures trace what followed, from a sunlit watercolour to the dark geometry of his final...
The Stories Behind Seven Paul Klee Artworks
A journey through Tunisia in April 1914 changed the way one artist saw colour. Seven pictures trace what followed, from a sunlit watercolour to the dark geometry of his final...
Our Story of How Moryarty Started
We loved looking at old pictures long before we thought of selling them. Then one day changed what that love could become.
Our Story of How Moryarty Started
We loved looking at old pictures long before we thought of selling them. Then one day changed what that love could become.
Kawase Hasui Prints and His Famous Landscapes
He went out in the weather with a sketchbook, and came back with scenes that still feel observed rather than imagined.
Kawase Hasui Prints and His Famous Landscapes
He went out in the weather with a sketchbook, and came back with scenes that still feel observed rather than imagined.
Ohara Koson Prints and How They Were Made
One man, three signatures, and a white peacock fanning its tail across a pale green ground. The prints came from a quiet collaboration between a painter and the craftspeople who...
Ohara Koson Prints and How They Were Made
One man, three signatures, and a white peacock fanning its tail across a pale green ground. The prints came from a quiet collaboration between a painter and the craftspeople who...
How We Find and Make Vintage Poster Reproductions
Too much wonderful art stays hidden in libraries and museums. We've made it our job to find it, restore it by hand, and put it on your wall.
How We Find and Make Vintage Poster Reproductions
Too much wonderful art stays hidden in libraries and museums. We've made it our job to find it, restore it by hand, and put it on your wall.
Who Was Amanda Almira Newton
For thirty-two years, one artist painted America's cultivated fruit for the USDA. Her watercolors are close, careful records of apples, grapes and oranges that still reward a long look.
Who Was Amanda Almira Newton
For thirty-two years, one artist painted America's cultivated fruit for the USDA. Her watercolors are close, careful records of apples, grapes and oranges that still reward a long look.
Why Choose Vintage Posters Over Neutral Wall Art
The wall above your sofa should say something about you. Right now, in too many homes, it says the same beige nothing as everyone else's.
Why Choose Vintage Posters Over Neutral Wall Art
The wall above your sofa should say something about you. Right now, in too many homes, it says the same beige nothing as everyone else's.
How to Choose a Vintage Kitchen Print
A blank wall above the table can change the way a kitchen feels. The right vintage poster brings warmth, character and a café feel to the room.
How to Choose a Vintage Kitchen Print
A blank wall above the table can change the way a kitchen feels. The right vintage poster brings warmth, character and a café feel to the room.
Kandinsky and the Bauhaus
Follow Wassily Kandinsky from post-revolutionary Moscow to the classrooms of Weimar and Dessau, where teaching reshaped his abstract art.
Kandinsky and the Bauhaus
Follow Wassily Kandinsky from post-revolutionary Moscow to the classrooms of Weimar and Dessau, where teaching reshaped his abstract art.
The History of Vintage Bicycle Advertising Posters
Bicycle makers turned a new form of personal transport into bold public art. Their posters chart changes in printing, fashion, industry, and graphic design.
The History of Vintage Bicycle Advertising Posters
Bicycle makers turned a new form of personal transport into bold public art. Their posters chart changes in printing, fashion, industry, and graphic design.
How Leonetto Cappiello Changed Advertising Posters
A clear account of how one Italian artist replaced decorative detail with bold characters, flat colour and street images designed for instant recognition.
How Leonetto Cappiello Changed Advertising Posters
A clear account of how one Italian artist replaced decorative detail with bold characters, flat colour and street images designed for instant recognition.
10 Famous Paul Klee Paintings to Know
Follow Klee’s development from the watercolours of Tunisia through his Bauhaus experiments and the dark, heavily outlined figures of his final years.
10 Famous Paul Klee Paintings to Know
Follow Klee’s development from the watercolours of Tunisia through his Bauhaus experiments and the dark, heavily outlined figures of his final years.
Who Was Egon Schiele
A clear biography of the Austrian Expressionist, covering his training, relationship with Gustav Klimt, radical figure drawings, major works, and early death.
Who Was Egon Schiele
A clear biography of the Austrian Expressionist, covering his training, relationship with Gustav Klimt, radical figure drawings, major works, and early death.
Henri Matisse Blue Nudes Explained
A close look at the four 1952 cut-outs, including their materials, working process, intense colour and remarkable economy of form.
Henri Matisse Blue Nudes Explained
A close look at the four 1952 cut-outs, including their materials, working process, intense colour and remarkable economy of form.
Bauhaus Posters and How to Decorate With Them
Learn how geometry, typography and colour shaped the school’s printed work, then use those principles to choose rooms, furniture, layouts and frames.
Bauhaus Posters and How to Decorate With Them
Learn how geometry, typography and colour shaped the school’s printed work, then use those principles to choose rooms, furniture, layouts and frames.
Hokusai Affiche and the Great Wave
Learn how Hokusai constructed his famous wave, why surviving impressions differ, and which paper, size and frame best preserve its fine details.
Hokusai Affiche and the Great Wave
Learn how Hokusai constructed his famous wave, why surviving impressions differ, and which paper, size and frame best preserve its fine details.
William Morris Prints for Cozy Traditional Inte...
Learn how Morris built his botanical patterns, where their dense detail works at home, and which colours and frames keep each repeat readable.
William Morris Prints for Cozy Traditional Inte...
Learn how Morris built his botanical patterns, where their dense detail works at home, and which colours and frames keep each repeat readable.
How to Identify an Alphonse Mucha Poster
Learn how Mucha developed his Parisian style, how to recognise its visual signatures, and which frames and interiors suit his ornate compositions.
How to Identify an Alphonse Mucha Poster
Learn how Mucha developed his Parisian style, how to recognise its visual signatures, and which frames and interiors suit his ornate compositions.