Freedom Is In Peril. Defend It With All Your Might
Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory
and
Keep Calm and Carry On
I don't care much for propaganda and the organised public hysteria that is generated to support a war, but the impact of the words, the lettering, the style and layout are what draw my attention. The Keep Calm and Carry On poster, appeared in 1939 and was a series of three propaganda posters by the British Ministry of Information designed to garner support for the war. Click here to view a sample. The posters have now passed on into popular culture and just recently a version of this appeared* on my iPad. As such, the poster is the inspiration for today's post.
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