Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories
Poster
1928 (issued)
1928 (issued)
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The Empire Marketing Board (1928-1933) was established to promote the products of the British Empire within the United Kingdom. The products were chiefly foodstuffs, but they included some industrial commodities too. The EMB was a major patron of graphic designers and film-makers. The design and content of the posters was self-consciously superior to those of advertisements. The EMB commissioned many well-known artists, including Edward Mcknight Kauffer and Gerald Spencer Pryse. Artists were asked to re-submit work that failed to display sufficient technical accuracy or which lapsed into fantasy. Clive Gardiner's strikingly modernist design was issued as part of a series of posters stressing the economic interdependence of Britain and its overseas Empire.
Object details
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| Title | Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithography |
| Brief description | One of a six part colour lithograph poster entitled 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories'. Designed by Clive Gardiner. Issued by the Empire Marketing Board. Great Britain. 1928. |
| Physical description | Colour lithograph poster promoting the purchasing of goods produced by the British Empire. Signed. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Signed.) |
| Production | One of a six part poster entitled 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories' (E.443:1 to 6-1932). |
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| Summary | The Empire Marketing Board (1928-1933) was established to promote the products of the British Empire within the United Kingdom. The products were chiefly foodstuffs, but they included some industrial commodities too. The EMB was a major patron of graphic designers and film-makers. The design and content of the posters was self-consciously superior to those of advertisements. The EMB commissioned many well-known artists, including Edward Mcknight Kauffer and Gerald Spencer Pryse. Artists were asked to re-submit work that failed to display sufficient technical accuracy or which lapsed into fantasy. Clive Gardiner's strikingly modernist design was issued as part of a series of posters stressing the economic interdependence of Britain and its overseas Empire. |
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| Other number | 14/G1 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.443:3-1932 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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