‘Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
English - September 30, 2014 15:23 - 26 minutes - 30.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCourses Education Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the war effort. They chart the progress of recruitment strategies from voluntarism through to the contested years leading to conscription.