Discover The World's Best Rare Design Posters, Then Buy Them

Re-Issue is an ongoing exhibition series showcasing rare design posters from around the world. The best bit? They’re pre-framed and available to purchase. Australian designers Stuart Hall and Elise Santangelo, who together make up Holiday, came up with the idea for the project after they’d amassed a solid collection of posters while living and working overseas. They had more posters than they knew what to do with, gathering dust in tubes rather than hanging on walls. “We started buying more from different studios and museums, even though we knew they had the same fate awaiting them,” Hall tells The Creators Project. “It got to the point where we either had to stop collecting posters, or figure out how we could keep collecting without feeing guilty.” Sharing, and continuing to grow, their collection was the answer. After pairing up with Kane Blanchard from Melbourne-based business Wilma Art Framing, Re-Issue was born.

Following a launch around this time last year, Re-Issue are back with a second collection of posters by mostly Western and Central European designers, along with two Australian designers. “We’re attracted to posters that have some sense of strangeness or sense of humour,” Hall says about their curation approach, explaining that it might be the composition of type, imagery, scale of elements or even the colour palette that catches their eye. “I guess it’s hard to say [what makes a great design poster] because there are so many different types and style of posters around. So you can look at one poster that might be a mash of colour and have some really odd illustrative element to it and say, ‘Man, that’s the one, that’s the best poster I’ve ever seen,’ only to turn around and see another really beautifully composed poster that’s calming and gentle and visceral, and say the exact same thing.”

The studios and designers featured in collection two include: Mark Gowing (Australia); Garbett (formerly Naughtyfish) (Australia); Côme de Bouchony (France); Un-Fun (Germany); The Rodina (The Netherlands); Studio Set (Europe/USA); S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t (France); Dan Solbach (Germany/Switzerland); Frédéric Teschner (France); Dorothee Dähler (Switzerland); Hi (Obergrundstr) (Switzerland); Prill Vieceli Cremers (Switzerland); Spassky Fischer (France); Daniel Peter (Switzerland); Peng Peng (Switzerland); Jurgen Maelfeyt (Belgium); and Johnson/Kingston (Switzerland).

The Re-Issue exhibition opens this Friday, December 4, at Grey Gardens in Melbourne's Fitzroy. Hall will also be joined by Megan Patty (Publications Coordinator at National Gallery of Victoria) and Michaela Webb (Creative Director at Round) in a panel discussion about “the poster as a possible cultural barometer”, on Tuesday, December 8. Profits from the sale of the posters will go to growing the collection and holding future exhibitions along with talks, workshops, events, and maybe even a book project.

Check out more of the posters from collection two below:

The opening for Re-Issue's second collection will be held from 6.30pm, Friday December 4 at Grey Gardens, 51 Victoria Street, Fitzroy. You can RSVP here. The exhibition runs until Friday December 11. You can find out more about it here, and visit Re-Issue's website or Instagram.

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