What is your favorite website for buying posters and/or prints?

September 22, 2015 1:23 PM

I'm looking for some new posters and/or prints to liven up my new apartment. Are there any good sites out there? I'm interested in modern art, maybe something with a vintage feel to it like this. I don't want to spend a ton of money, but for the right decoration, I'm willing to invest some dough. Thanks for your suggestions!
posted by Fister Roboto to Home & Garden (7 answers total)

The sample you've picked is an example of 1930's WPA Poster Art, and there are a gabillion sites out there selling reprints at a variety of price points.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:34 PM on September 22, 2015

Society 6 has a plethora of prints and posters!
posted by shortyJBot at 1:54 PM on September 22, 2015

I've bought three shirts from Look Human, and apparently they sell prints too! I've been thoroughly pleased with the quality of the shirts and have been contemplating ordering some posters.

Also been considering AllPosters.com, but I've never bought anything from them.

If you have Prime, Amazon also seems to have several well-reviewed sellers with great prices (for instance, this random seller happened to be the first one I picked).

If I wanted to spend some dough on nice art prints, I'd also consider the Imaginary Foundation. Again, another site that I have shirts from but no prints - but they seem pretty serious about their materials and methods (unsure about how serious they are about the "shadowy think tank" aspect).
posted by Devika at 5:27 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

If you're interested in purchasing originals, I recommend the Grapefruit Moon store on eBay (NSFW because they also sell vintage erotic photography). They have great stuff in all the time. Some of it can get expensive - for instance, most WPA or travel posters in the style of the one you link to would be several hundred dollars - but you can find really wonderful stuff for well under a hundred. I find that it's difficult for reprints to achieve the "vintage feel" due to the paper type and printing style.
posted by vathek at 7:40 PM on September 22, 2015

A Cup of Jo had a good roundup of links to online affordable art last year.
posted by ellieBOA at 10:41 PM on September 22, 2015

Seconding Society6 for a huge selection by many artists. For vintage art, I like these Etsy shops: High Street Vintage, Curious Prints, CoMod Classics, Antique Print Store, Gritty City Goods, Seaside Prints, and The Printed Vintage.
posted by neushoorn at 7:43 AM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I bought some things from AllPosters and was very satisfied.
posted by Billiken at 9:49 AM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]