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A pretty massive collection of colour photos from Nazi Germany. You’ll notice a lot of them have a LIFE watermark in the bottom corner.  I just discovered that Google has made available a veritable fucktonne of photos from the archives of Time and LIFE magazines.

To search the archives, just do a Google image search and add “source:life” to your query. (e.g. woodstock source:life)

The resolution of the images is actually pretty decent and every single image has a caption, photographer credit, location, date and is fully tagged. Really impressive stuff. You can even buy framed prints right on the image’s page.

If anybody’s listening, I’ll take one of these please.

Aces.

So the legend goes… in the spring of 1939 with an almost inevitable war with Germany on their hands the British Government’s Ministry of Information commissioned a whack of propoganda posters to let the British people know that King George VI was looking after them and everything was just hunky dorey.  When war broke out these posters would be distributed across the country.

This poster was never officially issued and was really only discovered 50 years later when a copy turned up in a used book store. The uber simple layout with King George’s crown and the slogan: “Keep Calm and Carry On” are a beautiful example of classic graphic design… to communicate a kind of eerily uplifting message.

When I learned about the poster and the history I thought to myself, “I really need to track one down.”

“Brilliant idea, Steve.”

“Thanks man, let’s get on the interweb and find one.”

Fortunately a gentleman in Britian is selling silk-screened reproductions at 10 GBP each.  Aces.

Damn… I NEED THIS SHIRT.