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DespairWear and Subversion!
DespairWear I love the subverted messages that come through from Despairwear (in fact any recognisable brand that can be subverted is of interest, has been so since I have seen people subverting the...
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“The slogan itself is a great discussion starter. Telling someone “there’s probably no God” is a bit like telling them that they’ve probably remembered to lock their front door. It creates the doubt...
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Keep Calm and Carry On
“For many the wartime slogans, such as Dig for Victory, Careless Talk Costs Lives, and Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases, have never been forgotten. Such slogans have been passed on as a part of our...
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My bucket list starts with: Visit Canada
Visit CanadaCanada looks a beautiful, friendly country, and all the Canadians I’ve met (and shared rooms with on my travels) have been lovely! I read all the Anne of Green Gables novels when I was...
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Bill Pertwee: The Warden Says
I’m currently trying to write my abstract for the “Framing Film” conference at the University of Winchester, and spent a very enjoyable couple of hours this afternoon watching “The Warden Says”...
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ww2poster Blog
I’ve added a new, more specialist, blog on WordPress: http://ww2poster.wordpress.com/. I will be back with this one too… but I have lots to say on posters, and with the whole furore over the Keep Calm...
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Dr Bex Lewis quoted in the New York Times
Not that I’m excited by this or anything! Read more on my WordPress blog relating to the Keep Calm and Carry On posters etc.!
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A New Gift: Venereal Disease
OK, I know the Keep Calm and Carry On poster is a hit, but really, WHY would you want to wear this on your t-shirts! I’m giving a conference paper on health propaganda next week, most likely Coughs and...
View ArticleSeduction or Instruction?: First World War Posters in Britain and Europe
Jim Aulich & John Hewitt (2007) “This book makes a critical and historical analysis of the public information poster and its graphic derivatives in Britain and Europe during the First World War....
View ArticleTransferable Skills: PhD
An article by Pat Cryer explaining the many transferable skills students gain whilst studying for a PhD (1997), and an article from 2004 explaining why many PhDs desert academia. Read more on my PhD at...
View ArticleNorth Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection
“This rare glimpse into North Korean society is the first book of its kind: a riveting collection of state-sponsored propaganda posters that presents the unique graphic sensibilities of this...
View ArticleVietnam Posters: The David Heather Collection
“Rarely viewed by the outside world, this collection of posters from the 1950s to the present encompasses a politically significant period in Vietnamese history. With their boldly rendered images of Ho...
View ArticleA Century of Olympic Posters
by Margaret Timmers (2008) “As four-yearly snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world – a lens through which we can explore links between sport and art, politics...
View ArticlePosters of the Cold War
“The poster was a key medium in the Cold War, used to produce both fear and loyalty at home and abroad. “Posters of the Cold War” surveys poster design from the late 1940s when the ‘Iron Curtain’ was...
View ArticlePoster Spotting on Dr Who
17th April 2010: “The Doctor is summoned to Blitz-torn London by Winston Churchill, and the Daleks are waiting for him!” Visit the BBC site. Interestingly, I didn’t recognise any of the posters, but...
View ArticleKatrina Royall: ‘Posters of the Second World War: The Fourth Arm of Defence?’
Royall, K., ‘Posters of the Second World War: The Fourth Arm of Defence?’ MA Thesis, completed 1991. Westminster University Poster campaigns from the Second World War are a part of people’s collective...
View ArticleLeslie William Spears: An Enquiry into the use of propaganda on the Home...
Original typescript, 1998. Dissertation (M.A.) – University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, Division of History of Art and Design, 1998. No abstract. I attended some sessions at Winchester...
View ArticleCampaign: The 100 best posters of the century, 1999
A really fascinating book which considers, as the title says, the 100 best posters of the twentieth century. BUT, who decides what can be considered the ‘best’. The decisions were made by a wide range...
View ArticleDarracott, J., Loftus, B. Second World War Posters London: HMSO, 1972...
A well illustrated work that accompanied an exhibition of war posters at the Imperial War Museum. It was edited by Joseph Darracott, the head of the Art Department at the IWM, with many illustrations...
View ArticleDavies, J. The Book of Guinness Advertising, 1998
When I bought this book, it was the cover which caught my eye! A multiplicity of colourful Guinness advertising (particularly posters) was tiled across the front. However, the new cover is also...
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