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London Advertising 1850-2000

  • 1850 Advertisements

    1850 Advertisements
    This time period was not too simple, but provided enough color and visual expresion to get the idea across. Contrasting colors became popular, but the style was still basic.
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    London Advertising

    This is an online sketchbook of the progession of London Advertising from the 1850s until 2013.
  • 1880 Advertisements

    1880 Advertisements
    30 years later, more thought has been put into the design. Typography came into play and the use of more extravagant color emerged.
  • 1900 Advertisements

    1900 Advertisements
    As the 19th century approaches, designers have added abstraction, decoration, and have become more realistic.
  • 1910 Advertisements

    1910 Advertisements
    1910 brought even more abstraction and decoration to London advertisements.
  • 1920 Advertisements

    1920 Advertisements
    As the year1920 approached, designers added more expression. They used multiple ideas in one frame to keep the advertisement interesting but not out of control.
  • 1930 Advertisements

    1930 Advertisements
    In the 1930s advertisements for shows became more multideminsional and designers took multiple colors and put them together to form a beautiful image.
  • 1940 Advertisements

    1940 Advertisements
    In 1940, aderverisements for products went through various changes. For example, the company who managed the board game monopoly constantly switched ideas on which logo should be used.
  • 1950 Advertisements

    1950 Advertisements
    The images used in advertisements in the 1950s provided even more abstraction and took colors that normally wouldnt go together and found ways to make them look extravagant.
  • 1980 Advertisements

    1980 Advertisements
    The 1980s advertisements used real lifeimages to get the designers idea across.
  • 2000 Advertisements

    2000 Advertisements
    In 2012, London hosted the Olympics. There was much controversy over which logo to use and designers worked very hard to provide the best picture with the most meaning.