This poster was designed by American artist Edward McKnight Kauffer, and published by the Underground Electric Railway Company of London in 1931. The design demonstrates the importance and impact of electric rail travel in the 1930s urban settings. The image unites "man and machine as the powerful driving forces behind London's Underground".
Well under the influence of the typographical styles by the Bauhaus School, Kauffer achieved contemporary developments in art and design. As many of the posters/ads of the 1920s and 30s, this design suggests the influence of Futurism and the heavily predominant Art Deco of that era. Text reads: "Power- The Nerve Centre of Londons Underground."
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