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Don't Brag About Your Job

Poster
1964 (issued)
Artist/Maker
HM Government (issuer)
Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist)
Evans, Eileen Margaret (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster encouraging secrecy. The design shows an illustration of a man wearing a brown and white striped shirt with a blue bow-tie and dark-coloured V-neck jumper. He has his head turned to the side, with his mouth open. The word 'SECRET' is lettered multiple times in red, flowing from his brain and out of his mouth. All against a white ground.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleDon't Brag About Your Job
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Don't Brag About Your Job'. Colour offset lithograph poster encouraging secrecy. Designed by (Edward) Reginald Mount and Eileen Margaret Evans and issued by Her Majesty's Government, Great Britain, 1964.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph poster encouraging secrecy. The design shows an illustration of a man wearing a brown and white striped shirt with a blue bow-tie and dark-coloured V-neck jumper. He has his head turned to the side, with his mouth open. The word 'SECRET' is lettered multiple times in red, flowing from his brain and out of his mouth. All against a white ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76cm
  • Width: 50.6cm
Measurements 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
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'ISSUED BY H.M. GOVERNMENT' (Lettered in top-left selvage.)
  • 'SECRET' (Lettered multiple times in red as part of the design, across the man's head and pouring from his mouth.)
  • 'DON'T / BRAG / ABOUT / YOUR / JOB' (Lettered in white on the man's jumper.)
  • 'KEEP OUR SECRETS SECRET' (Lettered in black, with the final word in red, along the bottom-right selvage.)
Subjects depicted
Secrecy
Man
Bow Tie
Shirt
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
27/G1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.211-1982

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548569/dont-brag-about-your-job-poster-mount-edward-reginald/
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