The Poster: A Visual History
Thames and Hudson, 2020
The Poster: A Visual History is based on the V&A collections and features many of the posters I acquired for the museum in my role as Prints Curator. In the final chapter Gill Saunders and I address how the poster has mutated and migrated in the 21st century spawning numerous digital descendants.
Editor: Gill Saunders
Editor: Margaret Timmers
Additional author: Zorian Clayton
Additional author: Catherine Flood
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Extensively and imaginatively remediated as a means of visual communication, the poster is still an inescapable part of our culture, urging us to shop and play, protest and participate. But thanks to the digital tools at our fingertips, we are no longer simply passive consumers of the poster, but its makers too, part of a fast-moving communication revolution.