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Safety First : Vintage Posters from RoSPA's Archives
Safety First : Vintage Posters from RoSPA's Archives
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Author(s): Rennie, Paul
ISBN No.: 9781908643728
Pages: 160
Year: 201506
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 37.73
Status: Out Of Print

Stop. Look. Listen.' 'Clunk Click Every Trip.' 'MIND THE GAP.'.Safety campaigns touch a nerve in all of us. Over the years, these posters, slogans and TV adverts have imprinted themselves on our collective memory, evoking nostalgia for childhood and a bygone Britain.


In 2011, RoSPA made a wonderful discovery: a superb 'missing' archive of historical safety posters dating from the 1930s to 1970s. Clever, beautifully designed, often amusing, always packing a punch these posters not only showcase the talented designers of the time, but also reflect the momentous changes that swept 20th-century Britain, revealing our social and industrial history from a unique new angle.


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