Nobody Seems To Know
AUCKLAND, Wed. (P.A.).— Nobody seems to know if any of the three winning Empire Games posters judged on May 5 will be used to publicise the Games throughout England. Critics among citizens who inspected the posters in an Auckland department store window have dismissed the first place winners as “an-aemic-looking,” the second as “an advertisement for Government running shoes,” and the third as “watery looking." ’ • . One of the judges, Mr Vernon Brown, an Auckland architect, explained it this way: “We have to realise that we are not selling vegetables. We are introducing New Zealand to a very sophisticated audience.
“Worn out symbols of poster art, like legs and Union Jacks won’t ,do it.’’
The principal winner, Mr Clifton Firth, an Auckland photographer, said he conceived his poster fey putting himself in the shoes of somebody in Britain, and trying to visualise what would appeal to him. The Games committe will decide what to do at its next meeting.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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