Don't play with fire! Use Orion electric flashlight!

Pörzse Lajos

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Beschreibung

Size: Pre-war 1 Sheet (cca. 95 x 63 cm). Don t play with fire Use Orion electric flashlight is a 1938 vintage Hungarian advertising poster designed by Lajos Porzse It was designed for Orion which was a successful Hungarian company The Orion factory produced electronic devices mostly lamps and radios The ancestor of the company was founded in 1913 by an Austrian businessman J nos Kremenczky and was originally called Hungarian Wolfram Lamp Factory Some years later several other smaller factories joined and from 1924 the company changed its name to Orion Electronic Joint Stock Company The brand soon became popular it was well known and sought after in foreign countries as well from 1930 In 1934 the 90 of Orion radios were already being sold in abroad In the 1940s Orion was responsible for the 25 30 of the world s radio export In the 1960s Orion started producing the first color televisions in Hungary Besides tv s and radios the company was making a variety of electronic devices such as flaslights This poster is an early example of the flaslight advertisements of the company Flashlight became an everyday item by the early 1920s The poster is a nice art deco design it uses a very elegant typography for the trademark s name In front of a black background a candle and matches can be seen on the left and a wide fireball at the top with the text Don t play with fire A hand holds a flaslight on the right and the text appears in the trail of light Use Orion electronic flaslight The poster s message is quite didactic which gives a humorous attitude At the same time the colours and the composition make the design spectacular Fine, restored, backed on linen. Restoration is a bit weary. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Don't play with fire! Use Orion electric ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Paper, stone lithography.