Poster History

1. There have always been posters, at least since there have been walls to stick them to and certainly since the invention of printing (Shakespeare used posters).


2. Printing press was a boon.


3. Invention of lithography in 1796 (and chromolitholithography later) meant that text based posters were not the only type of poster.


4. 1800s French poster makers like Toulous Lautrec took posters to artistic heights.


5. 1900s Photographic processes