I wanted to do something for Remembrance Day. Not only do I feel its an important cause to support and should not be taken lightly but the date this year is particularly special. It is just a very basic typography piece which was put together in a few hours this evening. I would have loved to have spent more time on it alas I'm short on time as it is and listen to the line "We are the dead" over and over is deeply saddening. I do not own copyright to the recording [but did buy it] and it is from "Listen To Britain"[dir. Robert Garofol © Classic Pictures, 2002] and is an excerpt from John McRae's 1915 poem "In Flander's Fields". Since Higher English I've always liked the war poems by McRae, Sasson, Owen and this is one of my favourites, more information on it can be found here. I hope you all go buy a poppy or two.
Many of the Italian Futurist's were pro-war and were amongst the first european troops who signed up to fight. This resulted in the death of many of the key members of the movement and resulted in the end of the first wave of Futurism. Sant'Elia, the Futurist architect who is my principal inspiration this year died in 1914 and it is interesting to speculate on what he would or could have achieved had he lived. After WW1 Futurist attitudes were seen as being pro-war and socially un-savoury in places and design and architectural theorists and practitioners such as Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe began to invent the Modernist movement throughout the 1920s and 30s instead.
That's good IIIIr
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