Poster Girls, an exhibition of 150 female graphic designers opens at London Transport Museum

Poster Girls – a century of art and design is a new exhibition opening today at the London Transport Museum. With over 150 posters on display, the exhibition spotlights the work of 20th and 21st century female graphic designers, drawing attention to the contribution they have made to the world of design.

The exhibition features some of the leading female artists who have worked for Transport for London with well-known names such as Mabel Lucie Attwell and Enid Marx alongside lesser known individuals and forgotten design heroines. With work that has been produced over the last 100 years featuring artistic styles such as figurative, flat colour, abstract, modernist and collage, the exhibition acts as a timeline of design.

The posters are displayed in a chronological fashion, moving through the decades, revealing how each era influenced the included artists’ stylistic approaches. As well as the exhibition, the London Transport Museum are hosting a range of events, talks and debates including a conversation between textiles design duo Emma Sewell and Harriet Wallace-Jones of Wallace Sewell and broadcaster and author Robert Elms about the inspiration and thinking behind their iconic moquette seating fabric for London’s transport system on 7 November.

The exhibition is opening with a launch night this evening and will remain open until January 2019.