More Propaganda Love

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Seems I'm not the only one who loves their propaganda posters. You The Designer has a short blurb about propaganda posters in WWI and WWII and has a decent number of them linked in the article. Some of these are new to me, and I particularly like the one I've included here which shows the United States and the Russian side by side fighting evil.

Propaganda Posters

General, propaganda

Ok, so this is probably the single strangest thing about me... I've discovered that I have a love of propaganda posters, at least of the WWII variety. They carry a sense of urgency and importance that seems almost comical when paired with phrases like "Save waste fats for explosives".

I like the heavy-handed artistic style that seems to be common in a lot of them: simple color schemes paired with dire imagery. Its very utilitarian and inspirational at the same time, and I find them beautiful in a way thats hard to put a finger on.

Any way, if you too wish to browse some propaganda posters, you can find a couple of nice repositories on Flickr:

War Posters WWII posters

And I've included my favorite with this post.

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