Poster House is thrilled to be partnering with China Institute on a series of events in honor of The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy. Due to the COVID-19 global health crisis, many of these events are now taking place online. Join China Institute on May 6 for a live online program on Confucianism. […]
Wish you could see our The Swiss Grid show in person? Aching for more design content? Look no further! Join our virtual watch party and learn all about the birth of Helvetica, the 20th century's most famous typeface. Produced and directed by Gary Hustwit, Helvetica is a feature-length documentary that confronts the complex development of […]
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters. This season, we are focusing on The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The […]
Join us on this special Saturday and explore all of our shows free of charge! Drop in between 1 and 4pm for an all-ages interactive silkscreen demonstration and hands-on workshop, led by Dingding Hu, illustrator and designer, and Mike King, designer and screenprinter. Dingding and Mike collaborated to create a unique poster design inspired by […]
Join everyone's favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live! Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There'll […]
Join Poster House and legendary graphic designer, Cheryl D. Miller, of Cheryl Miller Design, Inc., for an interactive Zoom talk about her landmark Print magazine article, "Black Designers: Missing in Action" (1987). She will also be reading portions of her followup article, "Still Missing?" (2016) as well as her Pratt Institute thesis, "Transcending the problems […]
We had such a tremendous response to our first event that we've decided to make this a series! Join us for another Zoom poster design workshop with Isometric Studio, and create your own posters about climate change and the environment. While most businesses are closed and people are staying at home, images and data have […]
Poster House is thrilled to collaborate with Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society to host a Zoom presentation on Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite beverage, absinthe! Join us as Nicholas guides us through a brief history of absinthe in advertising, from the iconic Art Nouveau images of Livemont to lesser-known […]
Alphonse Mucha arrived in Paris in 1887, living in relative poverty as an obscure illustrator for many years. On Christmas Eve in 1894, the Lemercier printing firm was tasked with making a poster for the reopening of a play featuring one of the world's most famous actresses, Sarah Bernhardt. Mucha happened to be one of […]
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live! Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There’ll even […]