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: Classical figure with bow in front of a flag in upper left corner; the rest of the poster contains text about courses at the college.

See You in the Funny Papers

Posters depicts: woman in superhero costume holding a bow and arrow

Rough to Finish

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

Advertising Design: C&I Art School

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

School of Visual Arts Fall Session

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

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

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

Science States Meanings. Art Expresses Them (spiral)

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

Posters depicts: Purple and red illustration of someone parachuting out of a 1900s airplane.

When Logics Die, the Secret of the Soil Grows Through the Eye, and the Blood Jumps in the Sun

Posters depicts: Black and white photograph of one man, facing the viewer and painting on an easel; a second man faces away from the viewer and paints the wall bright red.

The School of Visual Arts Has Moved To Its New Art Center / 209-13 E. 23 St. NYC

Posters depicts: Delicate black and white photo of an egg cracked at one end, with red text against a white background.

Every Wall Is a Door

Posters depicts: A drawing of the nib of a ruling pen with ink coming out in messy blotches and swirls suggesting a rocket taking off and its exhaust, against a background of thin, horizontal red lines increasingly closer together toward the bottom of the poster.

Technical Illustration Airbrush Rendering Photo Retouching

Posters depicts: A technical illustration of an ellipse compass against a sheet of green co-ordinate graph paper.

Technical Illustration / Airbrush Rendering / Photo Retouching

Posters depicts: The Heart Has Its Own Reasons

The Heart Has Its Own Reasons

Posters depicts: Trisected image; each box contains a blue illustration of a different motion of a seated woman smoking a cigarette.

School of Visual Arts (woman in chair smoking)

Posters depicts: White orange and purple box, crumpled to resembled a piece of paper, with the letters SVA on it against a white background.

SVA: School of Visual Arts (flag)

Posters depicts: Blue text against white background. Black and white grid of photos of various SVA alumni.

I Got My Job Through the School of Visual Arts. You Learn Better When You Study With the Best poster

Posters depicts: Photograph of a Roman bust of a man's head with a forest scene painted on it.

Our Faculty Has Empathy, Imagination, Enthusiasm. You Benefit.

Posters depicts: Photograph of a half-blank pocket watch against a white background; the hands are pointed towards the blank half.

Art Is a Clock That Moves Too Fast When Measured By the Public's Sense of Time

Posters depicts: Man looking into camera

Film School / School of Visual Arts

Posters depicts: Black block text against white background.

How To Be a Good Commercial Artist

Posters depicts: Grid of 4 text-based ads for car wax, seatbelts, frozen vegetables, and Better Vision Institute

These Ads Were Done By Students. You Learn Better When You Study With the Best.

Posters depicts: Pastel cylinders made of graph paper and stacked on top of each other, against a background of graph paper.

Get Your Head Together at SVA. Night School at the School of Visual Arts

Posters depicts: Illustration of a grid of yellow and black doors, each open to reveal a major of SVA (circa 1967)

Posters depicts: Illustration of a painting palette with a rainbow and clouds running through it.

School of Visual Arts Department of Fine Arts

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