AllPosters’ sale on thousands of artful wall prints

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2 Cool 4 Back 2 School, Part 6: There’s nothing like a poster to jazz up a cinder-block dorm room wall and let everyone on the floor know what you’re into. As the hordes head off to school, AllPosters.com has marked down more than 5,000 designs, many under $5.

A quick flick through the first 28 sale pages on the website provides a graphic picture of today’s late-teen culture: Girls like ‘Twilight,’ Audrey Hepburn and Paris landscapes; guys gravitate to posters for movies, music and partying. The 8-by-10-inch poster card of a friendly physician, left, is $3.98. The 2-by-3-foot Ramones poster is $4.98.

The sale, which runs through Sept. 7, also offers scores of fine art reproductions from Picasso to Pollack. With these prices, they could be used as gift wrap or dresser liners. (How cool would this Gustav Klimt look in your undies drawer?)

See more designs that caught my admittedly post-post-grad eye.

Above: A 2-by-3-foot blow-up of a British paperback cover for Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’ $4.98; an 11-by-14-inch poster card, $7.98, with an illustration by Leonetto Cappiello, who revolutionized advertising posters in the early 1900s; and a 2-by-3-foot Italian one-sheet for the classic 1960 Fellini film, ‘La Dolce Vita,’ $4.98.

-- David A. Keeps

Photo credits: AllPosters.com