Cassandre

Cassandre's posters for railways and ocean liners turned speed into geometry. Normandie, 1935, shows the liner's prow from below so it towers like a cliff, with tiny gulls for scale; Étoile du Nord puts rails converging on a single star. He also designed the Peignot typeface and, for Dubonnet, a three-panel man who fills up with colour as he drinks. Late in his career he drew the interlocking YSL monogram for Yves Saint Laurent, which is still in use.