GPO Posters

From the 1930's the Post Office commissioned Britain’s leading artists and designers to create posters publicising postal services. Our lovely range of blank cards feature a range of these posters - only £1 each and get FREE delivery when you buy five or more with code GPOPHOTO. These cards will only be available until the end of this year, so order soon!

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The Postal Museum

an old poster with a large knife stuck in it's blade and the words write instead

Modern Graphic Design

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Think Ahead, Write Instead by Hans Schleger / Zero (1945) Zero was a leading figure in the development of modern British graphic design and received a number of commissions from the Post Office during the war years. This poster is part of a campaign responding to wartime pressures on telephone services.

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER From the 1930s the Post Office commissioned Britain’s leading artists and designers to create posters publicising postal services. This card features a poster encouraging the public to save through the Post Office Savings Bank, c.1940. Money Is Power, Money Poster, Battersea Power Station, Poster Advertising, Savings Bank, Save Power, Power Station

Money Is Power

Money Poster

Battersea Power Station

Money is Power card

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER From the 1930s the Post Office commissioned Britain’s leading artists and designers to create posters publicising postal services. This card features a poster encouraging the public to save through the Post Office Savings Bank, c.1940.

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Save for National Safety byFrank Newbould (c.1939) From the 1930s the Post Office commissioned Britain’s leading artists and designers to create posters publicising postal services.

an advertisement for a radio station with a pirate on it's head and the words, don't be a pirate you need a license to look or listen tv

Pirate Card

Vintage Graphic Design

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Don't Be A Pirate! by Robert Broomfield (1959). Robert Broomfield produced a number of posters in the late 1950s including this one, which refers to the granting of transmission and radio licenses.

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Post It Early in The Day by Harry Stevens (1960)

a painting with words written on it that say please pack parceles very carefully

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Please Pack Very Carefully (Dog) by Tom Eckersley (1959). Tom Eckersley was commissioned by organisations from London Transport to RoSPA and companies including Gillette and Shell. Eckersley also established the first undergraduate courses in graphic design in Britain at the London College of Printing.

a card with an image of a cow sitting on a pillow that says please pack packets very carefully

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Please Pack Very Carefully (cow) Tom Eckersley was commissioned by organisations from London Transport to RoSPA and companies including Gillette and Shell. Eckersley also established the first undergraduate courses in graphic design in Britain at the London College of Printing.

a yellow poster with the number four in it's center and leaves on top

£1 - free delivery with code PINPOSTER Sidney Alick Knight was a designer, illustrator and lithographer who worked for National Savings and the Daily Telegraph as well as the Post Office. He produced a number of posters throughout the 1950s and 1960s including this eye-catching design.