Starling Travel

August 10, 2006

Travel Posters

Filed under: Travel — Laura Moncur @ 5:00 am

The Los Angeles Public Library has an exhibit showcasing old travel posters. You can see it online here:

This wasn’t quite as interesting as I imagined because of the limited quantity they were showing. Back in 1995, Micrografx released ABC Graphics Suite, which was a software suite to compete with Adobe Photoshop. The software is long gone, but I still have the book and the accompanying CDs because they included a lot of royalty free photos and clipart.

My favorite of the collection is the Wood River Gallery. These low resolution photos are a collection of greeting cards, advertisements, drawings and more importantly, travel posters. Unfortunately, they aren’t easily searchable like Flickr, so sometimes I end up turning page after page looking for a perfect photo. It’s not very efficient. I don’t know what to do to make it more easy for me to use, but here is a quick slideshow of some of my favorites:

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

-

Powered by WordPress
(c) 2005-2017 Michael Moncur, Laura Moncur, and Starling Studios