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Keep Calm poster's history - Coggle Diagram
Keep Calm poster's history
Spring 1939
Britain was about to go to war against Germany
In order to reassure the population in the dark days that lay ahead
message of hope and courage
the government ordered a series of posters
These posters
had to be uniform in style
enemy
unabale
(incapable) to copy /
counterfeit
it
same
typeface
/
font
(police)
only graphic device-
crown
(couronne) of King George VI
only 2 colors in the poster
3 posters produced
Keep calm poster - not displayed
only for crisis or invasion
never seen by the public
simple, recognizable, timeless
September 1939
1st two posters displayed everywhere in the country (shopwindows, railway stations...)
More than 50 years later
discovered in a
2nd hand book shop
(librairie d'occasion)
North East England
bookshop opened in 1991
2000, Stuart found a copy in an old box, Mary thought it was really good
sold it in the shop
displayed
(distribué, publié) it in the shop