Comments on: last day: lena corwin pattern contest!

By: Estelle

Estelle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:01:21 +0000

The reason you are sick to death of seeing the poster everywhere is because people like it, its affordable and it says something to people. I don’t believe these posters profit from the misfortune of the british during WW2. The fact is the British public never saw these posters until many years after the war and it is in fact a British company that revived them. I have come across no public outcry from distressed Brit’s and in fact the ones I live with (who mind you own a copy of said poster) see it as something to be proud of, a nod to the Stoicism of her Majesties finest and also an excellent bit of design.

By: queenpretty

queenpretty — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:59:20 +0000

Kyle, I don’t think you need to apologize. I am sick of those posters, too. That’s the one and only curse for us design addicted folks. We see too much! And often it’s the same piece over and over…so yeah, I agree with you (not so much about the profiting from others suffering, but I’m tired of seeing it anyway).

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:18:22 +0000

Boy did I sound rude (my apologies!)
I have NO problem with cheap art, heck my apartment is chock full of cheap art as it’s all I can afford and there is plenty of great-looking affordable art out there. What gets under my skin is people making money off of the suffering of others, like if 50 years from now I decided to sell “cute” posters about the 9/11/2001 attack.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:35:40 +0000

I can definitely appreciate what you’re saying, Kyle. However, we live in a town of about 250 people in the frozen tundra of northern British Columbia where cheap wall art is the only wall art, so I don’t think anyone up here would really know the difference. Thanks for all the sources, everybody :)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:53:51 +0000

I was going to ask if anybody else was SICK TO DEATH of the Keep Calm posters… but I guess it’s just me.

Hannah – Barter books has them for about $7:
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32036

There are plenty of people online who sell these for significantly more money ($20+). The whole thing seems silly to me – the posters were initially designed to be displayed during WWII in public places in Great Britain. It seems a little strange to me to capitalize on the terrors experienced by others during a historically trying time, but c’est la vie. One man’s misery is another man’s cheap wall art.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:18:01 +0000

I got mine at etsy:http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5244654