1/16/2024 0 Comments Observer game poster![]() Later in the War, Churchill ordered a poster Games had produced to be taken off the wall of the Poster Design in Wartime Britain exhibition at Harrods in 1943. In addition to his poster work, Games completed a number of commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. ![]() Games used the photographic techniques he had learnt from his father in that and other posters such as He Talked.They Died (1943) part of the Careless Talk campaign. Other notable posters included Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades (1942) in which a spiral symbolising gossip originates from a soldiers mouth to become a bayonet attacking three of his comrades. The design Games replaced it with was criticised by Winston Churchill as being too "Soviet". Games had wanted to challenge the rather drab image of the ATS but the authorities feared that the glamorous image he had produced would encourage young women to join the ATS for the "wrong reasons" and the poster was quickly withdrawn. Among his first designs was the Auxiliary Territorial Service recruitment poster that became known as the blonde bombshell. Games was allowed a great deal of artistic freedom which enabled him to produce many striking images, often with surrealist elements. From 1942 Games's service as the Official War Artist for posters resulted in 100 or so posters. He served until 1941 when he was approached by the Public Relations Department of the War Office who were looking for a graphic designer to produce a recruitment poster for the Royal Armoured Corps. World War Two Join the ATS (1941) Art.IWMPST2832Īt the start of World War Two, Games was conscripted into the British Army. An article on him in the influential journal Art and Industry in 1937 led to several high-profile commissions for Games, from the General Post Office, London Transport, Royal Dutch Shell and others. ![]() From 1936 to 1940, he worked on his own as a freelance poster artist. In 1934, his entry was second in the Health Council Competition and, in 1935, won a poster competition for the London County Council. He was fired from this position due to his jumping over four chairs as a prank. However, Games was determined to establish himself as a poster artist so while working as a "studio boy" for the commercial design firm Askew-Young in London between 19, he attended night classes in life drawing. Disillusioned by the teaching at Saint Martin's and worried about the expense of studying there, Games left after two terms. Games left Hackney Downs School at the age of 16 and, in 1930, went to Saint Martin's School of Art in London. His father, who had emigrated to Britain in 1904, anglicised the family name to Games when Abram was 12. ![]() Early life and career īorn Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London on 29 July, the day after World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, nee Rosenberg, a seamstress born on the border of Russia and Poland. His work is recognised for its "striking colour, bold graphic ideas, and beautifully integrated typography". An example is the "Join the ATS" poster of 1941, nicknamed the "blonde bombshell" recruitment poster. Some of Britain's most iconic images include those by Games. In acknowledging his power as a propagandist, he claimed, "I wind the spring and the public, in looking at the poster, will have that spring released in its mind." Because of the length of his career – over six decades – his work is essentially a record of the era's social history. The style of his work – refined but vigorous compared to the work of contemporaries – has earned him a place in the pantheon of the best of 20th-century graphic designers. ![]() Abram Games OBE, RDI (29 July 1914 – 27 August 1996) was a British graphic designer. ![]()
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