Your talk may kill your comrades

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Artist/Maker	War Office (issuer) Games, Abram (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (printed and published)

Abram Games (1914-1996) was one of Britain's most important poster designers. Here his powerful graphic device is emphasised by his use of colour. It enacts the message that careless talk can have potentially serious consequences. Games's depiction of the death of three comrades is unusually frank. It was an emotive and effective way of driving the message home to the troops.

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Categories	Propaganda Prints Posters SCRAN
Object type	Poster
Title	Your talk may kill your comrades (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph on paper Paper Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades'. Colour offset lithograph poster designed by Abram Games and issued by the War Office during the Second World War, Great Britain, 1942.
Physical description	'Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades'. Colour offset lithograph poster. Signed.
Dimensions	Height: 74.5cm Width: 48.1cm Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Production type	Mass produced
Marks and inscriptions	(Signed.)
Subjects depicted	Security War Secrecy Bullets Soldiers
Association	Second World War
Summary	Abram Games (1914-1996) was one of Britain's most important poster designers. Here his powerful graphic device is emphasised by his use of colour. It enacts the message that careless talk can have potentially serious consequences. Games's depiction of the death of three comrades is unusually frank. It was an emotive and effective way of driving the message home to the troops.
Associated object	E.310-1981 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references	Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1 Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971
Other number	14/C2 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	Circ.297-1971

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Record created	March 13, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O76697/your-talk-may-kill-your-poster-games-abram/

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