Vintage I Love New York Travel Poster - 1985 - I Love NY Celebrates the Arts - Theater Poster

Vintage 1985 "I Love New York" Celebrates the Arts
Sponsored by trhe New York State Department of Commerce and the New York State Council on the Arts.

A collage of various art-related items representing different cultural institutions across New York State

Photography: Mark McCarty
Education and Professional Activity, Tufts University, B.A. English, 1975
Photographer, New York State Assembly, Albany, NY, 1975–1977
Mark McCarty Photography; advertising, commercial, and editorial assignments, national and international, 1977–2022

Art Direction: Elizabeth Czaban

The reverse of the poster identifies the items in the poster image including:
Ceramic pre-columbian statue
Shaker Box
Top hat from a Chorus Line
Head dress and plumes
Playbill
Silver rose from the Metropolitan opera
St Lawrence tarten
and much much more.....

Very good condition slight crease upper right edge

Size: 24 x 36 inches
Shipped unframed, rolled

I Love New York (stylized I ❤ NY) is a slogan, a logo, and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign developed by the marketing firm of Wells, Rich, Greene under the directorship of Mary Wells Lawrence, used since 1977 to promote tourism in the state of New York. The trademarked logo, owned by the New York State Department of Economic Development, appears in souvenir shops and brochures throughout the state, some licensed, many not.

"I Love New York" is the official state slogan of New York. The logo was designed by graphic designer Milton Glaser in 1976 in the back of a taxi and was drawn with red crayon on scrap paper. The original drawing is held in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.