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Kōrero: Graphic design

Pictorial style: Stanley Davis

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Pictorial style: Stanley Davis

This Gregg’s coffee advertisement was designed by Stanley Davis around 1926. Davis was a supervising artist at New Zealand Railways between 1922 and 1932. He employed a realistic, pictorial style in most of his work.  

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-E-BEVERAGE-Coffee-1926-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Hamish Thompson, Graphic design – Victorian design to modernism, 1890s to 1940s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/43803/pictorial-style-stanley-davis (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hamish Thompson, i tāngia i te 13 December 2013.