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Recent Find: Keep Calm (homemade)

“Then I got the idea to do a bunch of crazy art work on my own. You know all those posters that you see EVERYWHERE? That WWII slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On”? I love those, but I mean everyone and their dog has one and I didn’t want mine to be like everyone else soooooo I decided to do my own and kind of turn the whole thing on it’s head – use ridiculous colors and keep the British crown on there, but put it at the bottom and skewed, and then I white washed over the top of it when it still didn’t seem quite crazed enough for me.”

See in situ.

By Second World War Posters

Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home Front Propaganda posters as researched for a PhD completed 2004. In 1997, unwittingly wrote the first history of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, which she now follows with interest.

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