Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pm by Steve
Poster in Britain in 1939, when London was menaced by the might of the German military:
Poster in Britain in 2008, when London is menaced by “terrorists”:
The Brits may, at long last, have lost their resistance to fascism; but at least they’ve managed to preserve their design sensibility!
h/t: BoingBoing
(The images are linked to, respectively, a shop that sells t-shirts of King George VI’s message to the British people, and to the Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism Advertising Campaign, which has even more creepy posters.)
Update: OK, I can’t resist including this remix of the poster:
