David Klein's TWA Posters (2018)

(flashbak.com)

86 points | by NaOH 4 days ago ago

8 comments

  • matt_kirkland 8 hours ago

    There's a volunteer-run TWA museum in Kansas City that has a bunch of these! Very cool to see a bunch of their marketing materials together, they produced a lot of interesting work.

    • tylerflick 7 hours ago

      If you’re in KC be sure to check out the TWA rocket in downtown too.

  • andyjohnson0 12 hours ago

    Thanks for posting this. I found the style and colours very refreshing compared to contemporary minimalism.

    However I'm struggling to parse the round object in the first Switzerland poster. Anyone care to help me out?

    • smelendez 4 hours ago

      It’s rare to see contemporary advertising that’s so clearly the work of one artist.

    • netsharc 12 hours ago
      • matttproud 2 hours ago

        I presume this is hat a based on the ribbon.

        Note: That link's (actual) photographs seem to suggest that the topic was not adequately researched or generatively produced.

        Namely the photo with the caption "The Origin of Swiss Traditional Dress Photo by Cabinet Card Gallery" contains a sign within some words that indicate that even though these are Swiss people in the photo they are actually wearing costume to celebrate Austrian traditional costume of the region of Styria. The hints are "Steirisch" (Styrian) and "Buachstoana" (looks like a phonetic spelling of a Bavarian/Austrian dialect word as opposed to Swiss German and "Verein" (club/association). If someone could expand the "erh." abbreviation in a period-correct way, that would probably be definitively telling. This also doesn't resemble much of the Tracht I have seen worn at festivals in Switzerland either (regionalisms aside).

      • JKCalhoun 10 hours ago

        I assumed a hat (there do appear to be two trailing ribbons coming out — gives me a "Heidi" vibe).

      • andyjohnson0 8 hours ago

        Thanks. I'm going with the hat theory.