Take a rest – drink Coca-Cola

Artist: Herbert Leupin
Year: 1954
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″

About this poster

The Basel graphic designer Herbert Leupin was one of the most prominent and influential Swiss graphic artists of the post-war era. His posters combine the characteristics of the work of his French colleagues Savignac and Villemot. His humour, inventiveness and effective delivery of the advertising message make Leupin’s posters unique. This original vintage poster for Coca Cola from 1954 is the rarest poster among a series that Leupin designed for this beverage brand.

Artist: Herbert Leupin

Herbert LEUPIN was born in Beinwil am See in 1916. He lived in Basel and later in his life he moved to the Italian part of Switzerland, where he died in 1999.

Between 1932 and 1935, he was trained at the Basel School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught by teachers such as Paul Kammüller, Hermann Eidenbenz and Donald Brun. After graduating, he did an internship at the Eidenbenz advertising firm in Basel... more

Herbert LEUPIN was born in Beinwil am See in 1916. He lived in Basel and later in his life he moved to the Italian part of Switzerland, where he died in 1999 ...