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The Art of War

We were doing a bit of research this morning, and stumbled across a really fantastic archive of wartime poster art and illustration, courtesy of the National Archives' Art of War online exhibition. There's a wealth of beautiful stuff on display, featuring a lot of original artwork, including Patrick Keely's 1940s Road Safety poster (above), a Carless Talk Costs Lives poster by Reeves (below left), and Reginald Mount's Hawker Hurricane poster (below right).

That then reminded us to post about (and order our own copy of) Paul Rennie's rather lovely book Modern British Posters, published recently by Black Dog Press, which features a vast range of 20th Century British posters, including the three below.

Mmmm. Posters.

posted: 25 August 2010
categories: Posters | Web

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