Jacques Auriac Posters

So, I’m hanging out my with friend and fellow book nerd Sean Flores a while ago and he’s breaks out these incredible posters designed for Bally in the 1980s. My jaw drops! He tells me they were created by French designer Jacques Auriac. Who the heck is Jacques Auriac?  I’m thinking.  Then Sean mentions that a Paris based publisher produced a catalog of his work. Ahh crap!! just what I need, another expensive import book to track down. A year later and a trip to Tokyo I finally got my hands on this thing.

It’s a beautiful book filled with full color reproductions of Auriac’s poster work from the 1950s up till when he died in 2003. He was a profilic designer/ illustrator and produced posters for a broad range of clients includng Middle East Airlines, Air Afrique, Gitanes and Bally. His earlier work reminds slightly of Raymond Savignac, Herve Morvan and Jacques Nathan Garamond.

You might be able to order a copy this book directly though the publisher if it’s not already out of print.

Bally poster c1981 designed by Jacques Auriac

Air Afrique Poster c1965

Groupement de l’industrie chimque 1965 + 1966

Syndicat national des graphistes publicitaires c1970

Salon international de l’agriculture c1970

Foire internationale de Bordeaux c1968

Berliet c1964

cards for Issy 2002

Societe Generale c1970 Grand Prix de l’Affiche 1970

Societe Generale c1971

Loto c1983

In addition, Daily motion has a great video of an Auriac exhibtion from 2007. View it here (In French)

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Tags1970s, 1980s, BOOKS, France, posters, vintage