Cassandre combined Synthetism and lyricism to create a new form of image to exalt the product: L’Intransigeant was a paen to communications; Etoile du Nord and Nord Express to the railways; and Normandie to the great ocean liners. Master of the airbrush (a technique that enabled him to produce smooth gradations of colour), the use of perspective and layouts of breathtaking audacity, he produced a body of work–with a few rare exceptions–of extraordinary power.

–Alain Weill, Graphic Design A History

Poster by A.M. Cassndre for L’Intransigeant, 1926

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