Away We Go
So this past weekend I made a solo trip up to Boston just because I hadn’t been up there in a while and I’ve always loved the city. I don’t think I could’ve picked a more perfect weekend to do it. Weather wise it was just absolutely fantastic and I really lucked out. Also, the amount of events up there for the second to last weekend of the summer were just too numerous to count. In my 3 days up there I traveled all over, saw so many places and had a truly fantastic time.
One of the events that I checked out was at the Boston Public Library. They had a vintage poster exhibition called Away We Go and it was dedicated to travel posters commissioned by the Tourism Departments of different countries from around the world. These posters date anywhere between the 1920s-1940s when it was considered the “Golden Age of Travel”. There were somewhere around 28 posters in the displayed collection, with short bios about the artists. But then they had a catalog of over 350 posters from around the world, easily one (or two) for every country. Every single poster was just absolutely gorgeous, and the amount of information provided for each one gave a rich history to the country, as well as to the creators. The exhibition lasts through October 17th and I really, really urge you to go if you’ll be in the area.
The exhibition boasts a Flickr page with all of the show’s posters, as well as a Zazzle page to buy merchandise.
I’ve included photos of only a handful of the posters in this post, but if you’d like to view more, you can check out our Draw Facebook album for larger shots. And you should become our fan as well. Enjoy.
