Bill Philpot
About The Artist:
After leaving school I pursued a long and highly successful career as a commercial artist working in London on many of the British advertising industry’s major award winning campaigns for such products as VW, Audi, Levis and Marlborough.
But now I have turned my attention back to subjects which I find more challenging.
I have long been an admirer of the graphics and typography of that wonderfully creative period of the nineteen twenties and thirties, particularly the work of the great poster designers like A. M. Cassandre, Charles Loupot and George Hamel (Geo Ham) in Europe, Frank Newbould and Tom Purvis in England.
In the late nineteen eighties I was commissioned by Christies Auction House to produce a series of posters for sales of their classic cars in London and Monaco, including that of the Bugatti Royale which sold for a record figure of £5,500,000. These posters, based on the graphic styles of the Art Deco period, have since become classics in their own right and are currently selling for quite considerable sums on the internet.
Now, working from my studio at home in Suffolk, England, I have returned to this genre and I ‘retrospectively commission’ myself to produce racing and auto advertising posters that are comfortable in their period.
Categories:
Classic Car, Motorsport (Illustration)
Website:
http://www.newvintageposters.com
Stefan Marjoram
These posters are terrific – I particularly liked the Le Mans ones. The ‘retrospective commission’ is a great idea too.
Paul Chenard
Dear Mr. Philpot
Your art/design is stunning. Beautiful art, with the addition of “period correct” wonderful typography … I love it!
Cheers!
Paul
Christiaan Spaan
Each piece is a masterpiece of it’s own. It sets the perfect mood. I like the Mille Miglia one
Christiaan