ERIC LANCASTER
Collection 30 Tourist Maps of France
Publié par le Ministère des Travaux Publics des Transports et du Tourisme
Direction Générale du Tourisme
Printed in France - Published by and for the French Government
Paris : Imprimerie Georges Lang , Paris : Sofcar (Map / Carte) - Procédé Nomaphot
Afrique du Nord Sahara Algerie Maroc Tunisie (1952) Paris : Imprimerie Lahure
Alpes de France
Alsace (1955)
Auvergne (1955)
Bordeaux and Guienne (1956)
Bourgogne
Brittany Bretagne (1954)
Champagne Ardennes (1953)
Chateaux de France (1954)
Corse (1956)
Cote d'Azur Riviera Paris : Imprimerie Sapho
France Illustrations de Dubois
Franche Comté Monts Jura
Guadeloupe Antilles Illustrations de Louis Moles
Ile de France (1954)
Itinéraires Protestants Illustrations de Louis Moles
Lorraine
Lyon
Méditerranée Languedoc Rousillon
Normandie (1954)
Pèlerinages (1954) Paris : Imprimerie Croutzet
Plages de France St-Ouen : Imprimerie Gaston Maillet et C.
Poitou Vendée Charentes (1954) Paris : Imprimerie Sapho
Provence (1954)
Pyrenees
Savoie (1953)
South West of France Limousin Marche Quercy Perigord
Sports d'Hiver Imprimerie Kapp
Toulouse (1954)
Val de Loire (1954)
Eric Lancaster (London 1911-1978) was a english graphic designer lived in France since childhood. He was a pupil of Jean Carlu at the École des Arts Décoratifs and collaborated with him.
Jean Carlu (1900-1997) was a french advertiser and graphic designer.
Together with Cassandre, Paul Colin and Charles Loupot - The Musketeers - he was one of the most important French advertising poster of the first postwar period. With a style generally influenced by Cubism , Futurism and Purism and more particularly attributable to Art Deco , he distinguished himself at the time for a particularly clear and concise graphics and communication skills.
Carlu began his activity in France in 1918 as an illustrator and as a poster author. Among the most important works of this period it is possible to mention the poster for Il Monello by Charlie Chaplin. In 1930 he joined the Union des Artistes Modernes.
In 1940 he was sent by the government of his country to the United States of America to set up a space at the Universal Exposition in New York. Upon hearing of the invasion of France by Germany, he decides not to return. He will remain in America until 1953.
Back home he resumes his advertising activity and carries out works for important clients such as Air France, Firestone and Larousse.
He was president of the Alliance Graphique Internationale from 1945 until 1956
Jacques Dubois (1912-1994) in 1931 entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris where he was a student of Jean Carlu and A. M. Cassandre and became a famous graphic designer and poster designer. In 1954, he was a member of the International Graphic Designer Alliance, and produced a large number of brochures and posters.
He was passionate about photography from 1934 and became a pupil of Maurice Tabard who allowed him to exhibit with Germaine Krull , André Kertész , Éli Lotar and Roger Parry at the "La Pléïade" gallery in Paris.
As part of his work as artistic director for the production of a book on popular he undertook a trip across France with Robert Doisneau and Roger Lecotté
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