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gamesProbably best known for his WWII propaganda posters, Abram Games is a fondly remembered, and very influencial, British graphic artist. Games’ work is clean and spare, putting into practice his motto, “Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means”.

  • http://johnawalsh.net/ John A. Walsh

    Sometimes I wish that Art Deco had never gone out of style. This is great stuff.
    -J

  • http://johnawalsh.net John A. Walsh

    Sometimes I wish that Art Deco had never gone out of style. This is great stuff.
    -J

  • http://stormsillustration.com/ Patricia

    Just fabulous, fabulous work.

  • http://stormsillustration.com Patricia

    Just fabulous, fabulous work.

  • http://www.comix.org.uk/mooncat/ monocat

    hm…
    he came & did a wee talk at my useless art college in Amersham (Buckinghamshire, UK) when I was on my HND there (from which I later dropped out: year one ends, “Yes you can specialise in animation in year 2″; year 2 starts, “We are not doing animation this year.” – me? bitter?).
    He was a very pleasant old fella & we were a bunch of ignorant little shits…
    He showed us some right good samples of his work & did a little talk, but it was all a little removed from what we might take in (conditioned as we were into stupidity by the crap tutors).

    Wish I’d been more enlightened…

  • http://www.comix.org.uk/mooncat/ monocat

    hm…
    he came & did a wee talk at my useless art college in Amersham (Buckinghamshire, UK) when I was on my HND there (from which I later dropped out: year one ends, “Yes you can specialise in animation in year 2″; year 2 starts, “We are not doing animation this year.” – me? bitter?).
    He was a very pleasant old fella & we were a bunch of ignorant little shits…
    He showed us some right good samples of his work & did a little talk, but it was all a little removed from what we might take in (conditioned as we were into stupidity by the crap tutors).

    Wish I’d been more enlightened…

  • http://drawn.ca/2005/07/20/eckersley-does-it/ Eckersley Does It « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

    [...] Abram Games, Tom Eckersley is a wonderful English poster artist best known for his WWII era propaganda. The [...]