3/6/2024 0 Comments Keep calm carry on crown![]() Why Professionals Never Lose and why "They is You" - click here.(or why it's ok to not be ok at times) - click here. Apparently most deathbed regrets are around things left undone, risks not taken (or why we need to be braver), click here." YOUR FREEDOM IS IN PERIL, DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT"ĭid you enjoy that? Fancy a sip of some of my recent “Coffee with Colm” Blog posts:."YOUR COURAGE, YOUR CHEERFULNESS, YOUR RESOLUTION WILL BRING YOU VICTORY".Whatever life you want to lead, my friend, so long as it is worthy of your time and honours you, the individual, while respecting others' rights to do the same, can be achieved by following the amazing wisdom found in a simple series of three wartime posters (with tiny personal tweaks): "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" - all that's missing perhaps are two words: Yet again its words ring true today, almost a century later: The punters started asking for copies, and the rest, as they say, is *ahem* history! The fighting stopped, the rebuild began, the posters (including "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON") were stuffed in drawers.Įventually, a bookshop owner stumbled across the third poster, framed it and hung it in his shop. To find out more, watch the five-minute video, listen to the five-minute podcast, or read on below.įirstly, ironically, it was rarely, if ever seen not having been distributed much as the war came to an end. The messages, equally simple, equally brilliant and most importantly, effective.Īnd you and I can take lessons from them seventy five years on. The concept was simple, the design simply brilliant, the effect, tremendous.Īll three were designed around a two-colour format white font on a single colour background, striking typeface in CAPS, and of course the crown image, representing the crown of King George VI. The other two were posted far and wide in train stations, at sea and air ports, in cities and towns and were specifically designed to to assist with that morale-boosting effort. The British Government commissioned a series of three posters, one of which was rarely seen, the third, "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON". These were tough times. In fairness to Winston Churchill he managed to keep morale up when at times I assume it must have felt hopeless. ![]() Roll back seventy five years this week and the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, setting in train a series of events that would ultimately end World War 2.īack in Britain, the people were weary from years of war and still reeling from the blitz of 1940 - 1941. Then I stumbled across its history and it blew my mind. Never gave it much thought until now to be honest. Red background, white font, striking typeface, "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" in CAPS, and of course, the crown.
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