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Graphic Design In The 1930s

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In the 1930s, the United States was going through the Great Depression and many Americans were unemployed. The Federal Art Project, a branch of the FDR’s Works Project Association, had a small group that was devoted to poster design and this resulted in the US government being the proiment patron of cutting edge graphic design in the 1930s. FAP posters were seen by a larger audience than Vogue or Vanity Fair. Silkscreening was less expensive than lithography, and silkscreen increased the output of the number of posters printed. The FAP posters woke up the American public about the beauty of Art Deco abstraction. For example, Lester Beall created a poster Rural Electrification--Radio for the department of agriculture that used black and white
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