I love war posters and love using them as part of the graphic design courses I give.

They make excellent teaching material because on the one hand they are (thankfully) divorced from our day and age and thus allow an objective discussion of their graphic qualities, but on the other hand they represent the ultimate peak of their era’s graphic endeavor, created by the best and brightest designers of their time on the type of budget that only a government can afford. They also have the added value of expanding student’s horizons slightly beyond the last ad campaign they saw on TV and exposing them to a world that, although experienced by our grandparents, is for us the realm of history books.

I truly believe that a good education and a thirst for knowledge are critical to the artistic process and I try and teach my students accordingly to the best of my ability. It’s the least I could do for them seeing how much crap they have to take from me…
: )

PS
Thanks go to Merkley??? who sent me the poster above.