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Abram Games (Abraham Gamse) was born on 29 July, 1914 in Whitechapel, London, England, is a British graphic designer (1914–1996). Discover Abram Games's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Abraham Gamse
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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July, 1914
Birthday 29 July
Birthplace Whitechapel, London, England
Date of death 27 August, 1996
Died Place London, England
Nationality London, England

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1904

His father, who had emigrated to Britain in 1904, anglicised the family name to Games when Abram was 12.

1914

Abram Games (29 July 191427 August 1996) was a British graphic designer.

The style of his work – refined but vigorous compared to the work of contemporaries – has earned him a place in the pantheon of the best of 20th-century graphic designers.

In acknowledging his power as a propagandist, he claimed, "I wind the spring and the public, in looking at the poster, will have that spring released in its mind."

Because of the length of his career – over six decades – his work is essentially a record of the era's social history.

Some of Britain's most iconic images include those by Games.

Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London on 29 July, the day after World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, nee Rosenberg, a seamstress born on the border of Russia and Poland.

1930

Games left Hackney Downs School at the age of 16 and, in 1930, went to Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

Disillusioned by the teaching at Saint Martin's and worried about the expense of studying there, Games left after two terms.

1932

However, Games was determined to establish himself as a poster artist so while working as a "studio boy" for the commercial design firm Askew-Young in London between 1932 and 1936, he attended night classes in life drawing.

He was fired from this position due to his jumping over four chairs as a prank.

1934

In 1934, his entry was second in the Health Council Competition and, in 1935, won a poster competition for the London County Council.

1936

From 1936 to 1940, he worked on his own as a freelance poster artist.

1937

An article on him in the influential journal Art and Industry in 1937 led to several high-profile commissions for Games, from the General Post Office, London Transport, Royal Dutch Shell and others.

At the start of World War Two, Games was conscripted into the British Army.

1941

An example is the "Join the ATS" poster of 1941, nicknamed the "blonde bombshell" recruitment poster.

His work is recognised for its "striking colour, bold graphic ideas, and beautifully integrated typography".

He served until 1941 when he was approached by the Public Relations Department of the War Office who were looking for a graphic designer to produce a recruitment poster for the Royal Armoured Corps.

1942

From 1942 Games's service as the Official War Artist for posters resulted in 100 or so posters.

Games was allowed a great deal of artistic freedom which enabled him to produce many striking images, often with surrealist elements.

Among his first designs was the Auxiliary Territorial Service recruitment poster that became known as the blonde bombshell.

Games had wanted to challenge the rather drab image of the ATS but the authorities feared that the glamorous image he had produced would encourage young women to join the ATS for the "wrong reasons" and the poster was quickly withdrawn.

The design Games replaced it with was criticised by Winston Churchill as being too "Soviet".

Other notable posters included Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades (1942) in which a spiral symbolising gossip originates from a soldiers mouth to become a bayonet attacking three of his comrades.

1943

Games used the photographic techniques he had learnt from his father in that and other posters such as He Talked...They Died (1943) part of the Careless Talk campaign.

In addition to his poster work, Games completed a number of commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee.

Later in the War, Churchill ordered a poster Games had produced to be taken off the wall of the Poster Design in Wartime Britain exhibition at Harrods in 1943.

The Army Bureau of Current Affairs, ABCA, had commissioned Games and Frank Newbould to produce posters for a series entitled Your Britain - Fight for It Now.

While Newbould produced rural images similar to the pre-war travel posters he had created for several railway companies, Games presented a set of three Modernist buildings that had been built to address poverty, disease and deprivation.

The poster that annoyed Churchill most featured the Berthold Lubetkin designed Finsbury Health Centre superseding a ruined building with a child suffering from rickets.

Churchill considered this nothing short of a libel on the conditions in British cities and ordered the poster to be removed.

Ernest Bevin, the war-time Minister of Labour, had another poster in the series removed from the Poster Design in Wartime Britain exhibition organised by the Association of International Artists.

1946

In 1946, Games resumed his freelance practice and worked for clients such as Royal Dutch Shell, the Financial Times, Guinness, British Airways, London Transport and El Al.

He designed stamps for Britain, Ireland, Israel, Jersey and Portugal.

Also, he designed the logo for the JFS school.

Between 1946 and 1953, Games was a visiting lecturer in graphic design at London's Royal College of Art and in 1958, was awarded the OBE for services to graphic design.

1951

There were also book jackets for Penguin Books and logos for the 1951 Festival of Britain (winning the 1948 competition) and for the 1965 Queen's Award to Industry.

1954

Among his pioneering contributions was, in 1954, the first moving on-screen symbol of BBC Television.

He also produced murals.

1959

In 1959, he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).