Wednesday 2 January 2013

hang in there, baby

The richly resourceful diving bell of the past, the Retronaut, curates a magnificent selection of motivational business posters from the 1920s with the unsinkable employee Bill Jones, an Artsy-Craftsy creation of British Parker-Holladay Company, with transatlantic offices.
Though I tend to think that contemporary motivation posters, especially those letter-boxed ones with rather heavy-handed themes, are mostly effective for workers that could might someday soon be replaced by robots, I really enjoyed the series of lithographs for their artwork and message, featured right in time for the end of the holiday season and return to the office when the atmosphere at work can be quite oppressive and demotivating at times.