Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Another artist and poster designer of the Art Nouveau movement, Toulouse-Lautrec paints very eye-catching poster - ads. His posters are characters by very stylized dramatic figures, which is what I like about his work. They look cartoon-ish but theres a bit of realism in them as well.

Leonetto Cappiello

Often called 'the father of modern advertising' Leonetto Cappiello was a poster designer in France and part of the Art Nouveau movement. His posters usually contained brightly colored figures or the product being advertised portrayed with a contrasting background. I found his work interesting because they're all very impressive paintings, and his style of portraying his products mascots very clever. The portray the character of the company/products they're advertising very well.

Movie Poster Insirpations

Paul Rand

A hugely influential American Graphic Designer, Paul Rand created a large number of well known logos; some of which are still used today. As seen here he created the ABC, IBM and UPS logos that everyone recognizes.
His work is recognized as part of the International Style, or Swiss Style. Its a graphic art movment that emphasized cleanliness and readability in design. As you can see in his logos he does just that. He creates simple designs that are easily readable and scaleable. I like his work because its simple. It conveys the image of the company and remains a small clean design.

Saul Bass Post

Saul Bass is an American Graphic Designer famous for his collection of movie posters(such as these shown: The Shining, and Vertigo) as well as his title sequences for movies like The Man With The Golden Arm and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. In his long 40-year career he also came up with the AT&T Logo, The Quaker Oats logo and many others.
His unique style utilizes a lot of bright monochromatic colors to illustrate his logos as well as his movie posters. The over all design looks rather simple but gets the message across clearly. The two posters above I picked for one they both seem to characterize Saul Bass' style very well. They both use one color, as well as black and white, and have his illustrations that really grasp the nature of the movies.