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1950 Unknown Labour see that you get these
from Democracy in Print
by rca-issuu
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Despite the similarity in terms of manifesto commitments, the aesthetic of the campaign took a massive turn, In the 1950 election Labour had gone to great lengths in an attempt to standardise their aesthetic, and creating a small in-house Design team within the Labour Central office was a way in which they made an effort post-1945 to improve the 35 Christopher effectiveness of the party’s design output35 Burgess, ‘From the Political Pipe to But in this election, it seems that the team Devil Eyes: A History of the British went against their remit and abandoned the Election Poster from 1910-1997’, PQDT - UK aesthetic that had been so confident in the & Ireland (unpublished Ph.D., The University 1945 and 1950 elections; the strong bold of Nottingham (United Kingdom), 2014), p. typography the confident use of photography 98, or illustration and the striking contrast between colours. Even after the publishing of Soldiers of Lead and recommending that typefaces like Gill Extra Heavy,