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The first thing I noticed about this 1970s East German poster for Battleship Potemkin  wasn’t the design, but the paper itself. The surface feels slightly coarse, fibrous, almost matte in a way that Western posters of the same era rarely are. It carries a muted fragility, but it is clear that the material remembers the world from which it came — a command economy where paper was rationed, production was centralised, and artistic output had to negotiate its place within the li

The first poster I ever bought seriously was the 1968 U.S. One-Sheet for 2001: A Space Odyssey  — the Style A design created by Robert McCall. It is an image that many people recognise instinctively: the vast orbital “Space Wheel” gliding above the curve of the Earth, a vision rendered with the crisp futurism and optimism that defined the late 1960s. McCall produced two posters for the film, but this one became the definitive visual language of 2001 : a quiet promise that tec