WWII Propaganda Posters
[ Styles from 1940-1949]
As in the First World War, governments committed carefully targeted funds to communications design in order to informed people and prepare them for the privations of war.
One of the main purposes of WWII in terms of propaganda was the attempt to appeal to the basic human emotion and ideals like justice and freedom or hatred and fear.
[ Important Facts ]
[ Graphic Designers ]
Lester Beall . F.H.K. Henrion .
[ Design & Geography ]
United States & Great Britain
[ New Design Elements in Layout & Technological Innovations ]
Women rising to the front of the war to produce the materials for it.
Most iconic poster is Rosie the Riveter. Women become an economic force to be recon with.
Lester Beall
American Designer
Was an artist, a photographer, a painter, a draftsman, a designer, a businessman and most im- portantly, a thinker.
His clear and concise use of typography was highly praised both in the United States and abroad. Throughout his career he used bold primary colors and illustrative arrows and lines in a graphic style that became easily recognizable as his own
F.H.K. Henrion
Graphic Designer
Frederick Henry Kay Henrion was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1914, this highly talented, award-winning designer was granted his British nationality in 1946. He trained as a textile designer in Paris and he worked under Paul Colin in Paris and London from 1936 to 1939. It was whilst in Paris that he came across the works of Cassandre, the Surrealists and the Modernist movement.
J. Howard Miller & Norman Rockwell
Graphic Designers
Were the artists who created the images of Rosie the Riveter.
J. Howard Miller
In 1942, Miller created the original image of Rosie the Riveter for a Westinghouse Electric Corporation poster.
The image depicted a woman in a red polka-dot scarf, flexing her bicep, and rolling up her sleeve.
The poster's slogan was "We Can Do It!".
Miller's image was part of a campaign to encourage women to join the workforce during World War II.
Norman Rockwell
In 1943, Rockwell created a version of Rosie the Riveter for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Rockwell's image depicted a muscular woman in a blue jumpsuit, eating a sandwich and wearing a red bandana in her hair.
Rockwell's image was inspired by Michelangelo's depiction of the prophet Isaiah in the Sistine Chapel.
