New York's Museum of Modern Art has a "New Typography" collectionfeaturing poster designs from the 1920's & 1930's.The really cool thing about this collection, which has been upsince December, is that you can see all of it online.
Neues Bauen (New Building)Theo H. Ballmer (Swiss, 1902-1965)
In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions.
Novyi LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv, 11Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891-1956)
Almost overnight, typographers and printers adapted this way of working for a huge range of printed matter, from business cards and brochures to magazines, books, and advertisements. This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA’s rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics.
Learn more about it here. See it all here.