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Shell Oil and Petrol : lorry bill or poster design by Jean D'Ylen : Shell-Mex Ltd., London : 1929

Jean D’Ylen was the pseudonym of Jean Beguin (1886 – 1938), French born artist and designer who was commissioned by Shell-Mex on many occassions in the 1920s and '30s for eyecatching designs that emphasised the company's progressive attitude to advertising and publicity. This is a lorry bill, or poster, designed to be carried by Shell delivery vehicles and is one a large number of such posters created by the company.

 

It appears in the 1932 edition of Poster Design by W. Graffé.

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