In 2011, on Pedlar Street in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, Stick No Bills opened its doors for the first time. Co-founders Meg Gage Williams and her husband Philip James Baber had spent years collecting vintage travel posters from around the world, and now they finally had a gallery to share that passion.
Fifteen years later, Stick No Bills operates Flagship Galleries on three continents, with another satellite gallery on Hiriketiya Beach in Sri Lanka as well as multiple points of sale in boutiques, hotels and airports around the world.
Stick No Bills also holds official licences from some of the most iconic brands in aviation history, and has built a global collection of authorised poster artworks sold in over twenty countries. The brand has grown, but the founding principle remains the same: preserve and celebrate the art of the travel poster through proper licensing, meticulous craftsmanship and a deep respect for creative heritage.
Galle Fort: Where It Began
Sri Lanka remains at the heart of the Stick No Bills story. The original gallery on 63 Pedlar Street still operates today, tucked inside the Dutch colonial walls of Galle Fort with the Indian Ocean on three sides. A second Sri Lankan satellite gallery followed on Hiriketiya Beach, on the island’s south coast.
The early collection focused on vintage finds: Ceylon-era pleasure maps, early airline posters, and graphic art from Sri Lanka’s rich history. Over time the model evolved. Stick No Bills began licensing archival poster artworks from international collections and commissioning new, vintage-style poster art from contemporary illustrators. The gallery on Pedlar Street became the launchpad for something much larger.
Fixed percentages of net income from all Sri Lanka collection sales are donated to local organisations working to conserve the island’s wildlife and cultural heritage.
Palma de Mallorca: Heritage Meets Contemporary Craft
The partnership with the Imprenta Nueva Balear in Palma de Mallorca represents one of the most distinctive aspects of the Stick No Bills story. The Imprenta has been run by the Aguiló family since 1913. Four generations have designed and printed the posters that documented Mallorca’s cultural life, from concert announcements and fiesta advertisements to sailing regattas and motorcycle races.
Master printer Roberto Aguiló Moro maintains a 12-tonne Albert Frankenthal printing press dating back to 1913, alongside two typographical Heidelberg presses, a Minerva and an Original Cylinder. These are museum pieces and relics of industrial-age printing and yet here they remain in perfect working order.
Together Stick No Bills and the Imprenta Nueva Balear created the Global Poster Gallery and Printworks in the commercial heart of Palma, opening the historic printworks to the public for the first time. The space functions as both a working design studio and Flagship Gallery. Roberto oversees the production of our Limited Editions, museum-quality fine art prints using state-of-the-art technology while the walls and ceiling of this historic building display both the Aguiló family’s vintage poster archive alongside Stick No Bills’ licensed collections from around the world.
Order a licensed Limited Edition from the Mallorca Collection and your uniquely numbered, embossed Hahnemühle fine art print will be produced in the same building where the original print runs took place.
Proceeds from the net sales of the Mallorca Vintage Collection are donated to the Cruz Roja de Mallorca.
Dubai: The Middle East Flagship Gallery
The most recent addition to the gallery network is the Middle East Flagship, located in The Courtyard of the Al Quoz art district in Dubai. Al Quoz has established itself as the centre of Dubai’s contemporary art scene, and the gallery sits within a community of studios, exhibition spaces and creative businesses.
Stick No Bills is actively creating new, original vintage-style poster artworks for Dubai and the wider Middle East. In 2025, Dubai-based artist Charlie Villagracia won the No Bill Piece Prize for the Middle East, a competition established in 2013 to bring new talent into the Stick No Bills stable. Charlie’s first poster artworks for the city are now available, with more in the pipeline.
The Gallery also carries vintage airline posters advertising travel to the Middle East, including classic works sourced from the archives of Lufthansa, BOAC – precursor to British Airways – and Middle East Airlines. For collectors in the UAE, delivery within Dubai is available directly from the gallery. Do get in touch.
Fifteen Years, One Vision
From a single gallery to three continents and over sixty points of sale, the growth of Stick No Bills has been guided by a consistent set of principles: proper licensing, authentic craftsmanship, giving back to causes that matter, and a belief that the travel poster is an art form worth preserving.
At Stick No Bills we are proud to be a human-centric creative endeavour championing real art from real places created by real people. In a world increasingly shaped by AI-generated content and mass production, this matters. Our journey has only just begun.
