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Games, Abram [1914-1996. UK. Graphic/Industrial Designer/Illustrator/Muralist/Painter]

Abram Games was born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London, England, on 29 July 1… subscribers only

B.O.A.C., Stratocruiser Speedbird, 1949, poster designed by Abram Games

Bibliography

1. A Games: 60 years of design. Forward by E.H. Gombrich, and essays by Charles Spencer and Tricia Cusack. Cardiff, Wales: Faculty of Art and Design, South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, 1990 [ISBN: 0 9515777 0 0]

2. Allner, W.H. Posters: fifty artists and designers analyze their approach, their methods, and their solutions to poster design and poster advertising. New York, NY: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1952

3. Games, Abram. Over my shoulder. London: Studio Books, 1960

4. Games, Abram. ‘Art for the cause of victory: my World War II posters’ P.S. The Quarterly Journal of The Poster Society vol.1, no.3, Summer 1986 pp.19

5. Games, Naomi, Moriarty, Catherine and Rose, June. Abram Games, graphic designer: maximum meaning, minimum means. London: Lund Humphries, 2003

6. Games, Naomi. Abram Games. Antique Collectors’ Club, 2013 [ISBN 10: 1851496777 / 13: 9781851496778]

7. Games, Naomi. Poster journeys: Abram Games and London Transport London: Capital Transport, 2008

8. Halas, John ‘Abram Games’ Novum Gebrauchsgraphik vol.57, no.12, December 1986 pp.46-51

9. Riddell, Jonathan and Denton, Peter. By Underground to the zoo: London Transport posters 1913 to the present. London: Studio Vista, 1995

Weblinks

Alan Livingston, Isabella Livingston, ‘Games, Abram (1914–1996)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [Subscription service]