Long Hair Is Dangerous By Tom Eckersley

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PURPOSE: Born in England, Tom Eckersley is a known as a ‘modernist master’, due to his famous graphic and playful posters. He design original artworks from 1934-1995, with a bold simple style, using shapes, texture and flat colour. He breaks down intricate messages in a way where the audience can easily interpret them. Eckersley is inspired by the constructivists and Bauhaus whom feature the asymmetrical features. ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ - The message that Eckersley is trying to portray is to pick up rubbish in order to ‘Keep Britain Tidy’. He cleverly incorporates the mans arm through the ‘I’ and we can see this through the mixing of the two colours and the hand coming out from the bottom. ‘Long hair is dangerous’ - Eckersley cleverly

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