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Viktor Ivanov, Lenin Lived Lenin Lives Lenin Will Live, 1967, Soviet propaganda poster

Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live: How ...

He had been dead for forty-three years. That was not, apparently, an obstacle. How the Soviet Union built a political brand that outlasted the man, the regime, and the century.

Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live: How ...

He had been dead for forty-three years. That was not, apparently, an obstacle. How the Soviet Union built a political brand that outlasted the man, the regime, and the century.

Before and after comparison of three Dig for Victory wartime posters showing archive damage removed and colours restored in the Vintage Poster Archives reproduction process

WW2 Poster Restoration: The Before and After No...

The three posters in the top row are the same designs you can buy from Vintage Poster Archives today. In the state shown, none could be sold. Here is what...

WW2 Poster Restoration: The Before and After No...

The three posters in the top row are the same designs you can buy from Vintage Poster Archives today. In the state shown, none could be sold. Here is what...

Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb: The WW2 Propaganda Poster That Got Women Wrong

Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb: The WW2 Propaganda...

She is the only one looking at you. Harold Forster's 1942 poster warns men to beware a glamorous female spy, a figure who barely existed. The real women of the...

Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb: The WW2 Propaganda...

She is the only one looking at you. Harold Forster's 1942 poster warns men to beware a glamorous female spy, a figure who barely existed. The real women of the...

Dig for Victory: The Poster That Started All This

Dig for Victory: The Poster That Started All This

There is a poster in my hallway I will never replace. A cheap, sagging reproduction I bought at thirteen with car-washing money, and the reason the whole business exists. The...

Dig for Victory: The Poster That Started All This

There is a poster in my hallway I will never replace. A cheap, sagging reproduction I bought at thirteen with car-washing money, and the reason the whole business exists. The...

Lord Kitchener Wants You, 1914 London Opinion showcard in red and cream, pointing finger and direct gaze, by Alfred Leete

Lord Kitchener Wants You: The 1914 Poster That ...

Everyone knows the pointing finger. Almost no one knows it started as a magazine advertisement in a newsagent's window. The real story of Alfred Leete's 1914 Kitchener design, the sheet...

Lord Kitchener Wants You: The 1914 Poster That ...

Everyone knows the pointing finger. Almost no one knows it started as a magazine advertisement in a newsagent's window. The real story of Alfred Leete's 1914 Kitchener design, the sheet...

Leonetto Cappiello's 1906 Maurin Quina poster, a leaping green devil clutching a bottle against a flat black ground

Leonetto Cappiello: The Designer Who Invented t...

Four posters a month for eighteen years, and a method that invented the modern advertisement: one figure, one flat black ground, nothing else. The story of Leonetto Cappiello.

Leonetto Cappiello: The Designer Who Invented t...

Four posters a month for eighteen years, and a method that invented the modern advertisement: one figure, one flat black ground, nothing else. The story of Leonetto Cappiello.