Propaganda.
“Posters have become, in this century, one of the many modern instruments of persuasion.” I quote from the book ‘Selling The War’ that I picked up from the library at course which contains some of the best posters I’ve ever seen. When I end up picking up a scanner I’ll upload some of these pieces because the ones you find scattered on the internets are either shitty quality, or just shitty. All the posters I see on my day to day excursions are un-emotive typographic mash-ups that tell me that a band I’ve never heard of is playing at the Dux on Thursday, that’s cool, thankyou, even movie posters nowadays are bland shitty wastes of space. Most of the movie posters nowadays may as well just be the synopsis of the movie in black text on a white background.
Now to me, those posters look exactly the same.
Now a poster like that conveys the point across so simply and effectively and is genuinely interesting to look at, maybe not as interesting as an angry english man flying across the screen with guns, but you know, he did the best he could. This post could go on for ages about this kind of stuff but I don’t know nearly enough about it to be to talk about it and make it look like I know what the hell I’m saying. Anyway, here’s a thing I did with some text I found in some of the posters in the book, yeah.
