SVA Subway Posters

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SVA has produced more than 200 posters for the New York City subway platforms, in the process creating one of the most enduring public art projects in the City. This is a complete overview of the subway poster campaign, from the earliest posters when SVA was known as Cartoonists and Illustrators School to the most current posters now displayed in subway stations.

Posters depicts: Illustrated hand holding three-dimensional block with the letters ART. C&I text in black, School in red text.

C and I Art School

Posters depicts: White, black and blue graphics made using a mix of geometric and organic block shapes.

C and I Art School: Symbols of the Past... Designs of the Present...

Posters depicts: Abstract bird shape, with "advertising design" at the top and "C and I Art School"

Advertising Design: C&I Art School

Posters depicts: Underneath an orange splatter of paint containing text, a photograph of a clean palette knife against a white background.

C&I Art School - Fall Session (orange)

Posters depicts: Purple and orange text against a white background; the header is "SVA," with the VA massive compared to the S.

sVA (name change)

Posters depicts: Underneath a neon green splatter of paint containing text, a photograph of a clean palette knife against a white background.

C&I Art School - Summer Session (green)

Posters depicts: Rough graphite and blue sketch against a white background of a man drawing.

School of Visual Arts Fall Session

Posters depicts: Rough charcoal illustration of someone's feet sitting on a chair with a T square leaning against it. Header text appears in blue against a white background.

Drafting: Architectural and Mechanical: New Courses Offered By the Technical Illustration Department School of Visual Arts

Posters depicts: Portrait of a man, segmented to resemble a collage, surrounded by purple books against a white background.

The Art of a Nation... is an Exponent of its Ethical State

Posters depicts: Black and white schematic against a blue background, showing a spiral shape.

Science States Meanings. Art Expresses Them (spiral)

Posters depicts: Grid of art against a black background, including fashion illustration, photography and cartoons, in orange, red, yellow and green.

Inside the Studios

Posters depicts: Orange and blue print of various art tools against a white background.

What is Art? That Whereby Forms Are Transmuted into Styles.

Posters depicts: Highly geometric and surreal depiction of a person with a distorted face, in white against a black background with a gray heart.

Without Education, It Isn't Possible For a Man Even to Appreciate Art

Posters depicts: Two yellow grids against a red background; one is normal, but the other has blocks twisted slightly to create a spiraling effect. Text is in yellow.

Science States Meanings. Art Expresses Them (squares)

Posters depicts: A simple geometric flowerpot with red flowers on red stems and green leaves against a blank color-by-numbers sheet of a ballerina.

School of Visual Arts (flowers on paint by numbers)

Posters depicts: Black and white photograph of a model of a human ear with a real pencil tucked behind it.

School of Visual Arts (pencil on sculpted ear)

Posters depicts: Sepia illustration of circus performer walking on a tightrope, two on bikes, and two others balancing on top of a pole connecting the two bikes. A crowd is visible on the ground.

Let Every Man Exercise the Art He Knows

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